The Path To Tame a Wild Heart by Melynda Carlyle

Her love was like a loaded gun…and it was a risk he was too willing to take.

Evelyn Pierce is a feisty young woman living in the town of Kecheetah, in New Mexico. Her involvement with the infamous Willard Lane in a rocky relationship left her both feared and ridiculed by the town’s people after Willard was caught robbing the local bank. Caretaking her father and running the family store, she now has to not only mend her heart and cut her ties with Willard but also live under the town’s watchful eye.
Lonnie Steele is an ambitious and handsome ranger who, coming from a long line of sheriffs in his family, wants nothing more than to become one someday. He is traveling from California to New Mexico in the hopes of fulfilling his dream.
When Lonnie becomes a man of the law in Kecheetah and invades the peaceful normality of the town with his irresistible charm, Evelyn’s oath to never get involved with another man will be put to the test. But as rumors of her and the new ranger start to swirl around town, Willard proves to never be too far, and tensions start to mount.
Can Evelyn and Lonnie work together to bar Willard from terrorizing the town? And more importantly, is Lonnie the man to prove Evelyn wrong once and for all?