A Splendid Yearning — Myra Rowe

Spun sugar with a will of steel, she defied convention to follow her heart. -- "What the devil is going on!" roared Forrest Obediah Sanders. The Chairman of the Freeman School Board had been expecting a male teacher for his new school. What he got was a female ... and an uncommonly pretty one at that. Miss Millicent Monroe, with her close-cropped curls and her big-city ways, swept in from Little Rock as cool as you please, and shot his well-laid plans to hell and back.

As for Millie, if Forrest Sanders thought he could scare her off, he had another think coming. After all, this was 1911. What did it matter that he was the most blatantly masculine man she'd ever seen! Or that his deep blue eyes could shout fire one minute and twinkle roguishly the next... She'd have none of his charming ways ... until their quarrels turned to kisses, and the scorching heat of his embrace kindled a passion that burned brighter than her wildest dreams.