The Cowboy and the Lady

At sprawling Casa Verde, old flames still burn ... Seven years ago Amanda Carson watched her affluent, well-respected family lose both face and fortune. Then her childhood crush--ice-cold cowboy Jace Whitehall -- made her an offer she had to refuse. Now Amanda has returned to Casa Verde, Jace's luxurious home. And Jace isn't about to let her forget who she is or what she's lost. Yet beneath their heated words, something simmers, waiting. For what once drove Amanda from this land may be the one thing that can make her stay HE WAS A SHADOW FROM HER PAST. Jace Whitehall had given Amanda her first taste of passion. His silver eyes had held a forbidden fascination for her, but at sixteen she had been too inexperienced to understand the fiery message in his searing kisses, too young to let him initiate her into the rites of love. Now all that had changed. She was a grown woman, ready to learn the lessons of desire, and there was only one man who could teach her -- a man whose glittering gaze held both the secrets of her unhappy past and the promise of a golden future. When Amanda Carson departs west Texas, she leaves behind a family scandal and a man she is determined to forget. Now, Jace Whitehall--the man Amanda hates and desires with equal intensity--is ready and waiting to finish what had begun years ago. Reissue