LADIES DIDN'T COME ANY FANCIER THAN MISS FANCY BOURNE....

Coop Fletcher had fought hard against the odds to make a small empire for himself in the lawless lands of Colorado. But what the rugged, silver-eyed rancher craved was the kind of respect a highborn woman would bring.

Miss Francine Bourne never intended to be a mail-order bride. But Coop Fletcher was the best -- and only -- rescue for an actress down on her luck. He believed he had a genuine lady at his side. Well, she could play a gentle-born Southern belle with her eyes closed.

Fancy could fool Coop Fletcher -- and even the most uppity citizens of Elizabethtown. But try as she might, she couldn't fool herself. The passion that her husband's demanding kiss ignited was so completely wanton -- and not ladylike at all....