Running Wild — Denise Eagan

★Finalist, Aspen Gold Contest★Difficult to catch. . .impossible to tame.Women's rights reformer, Star Montgomery, has resolved never to marry. She's also resolved to enjoy the more intimate aspects of marriage. Sadly, though, her aristocratic friends cling to dratted, dratted Victorian purity like drowning men to a life preserver, up to and including her irritating secret admirer. Then she meets western rancher, Nick McGraw, and she sets her sights on seducing him, for he must be more amenable to her desires than her stuffy eastern friends, mustn't he?He is not.Nick plays by the rules. That's how he tamed the Colorado wilderness, and no matter how attracted he is to Star, he will NOT betray his honor—or hers—by caving to her advances. But  before he knows it, he's summering with her family among Newport, Rhode Island's glittering elite. Even while he goes to battle with his growing obsession with a woman he cannot have,  Star's looming secret admirer shifts from being merely irritating to threatening—both Star's career and her life. . .