Wide Open Spaces (Lessons of Love in Miller's Bend #1)

Contemporary Christian Fiction/ Romance.
Shelby Sweetin has moved to Miller's Bend to establish herself as a professional newspaper reporter, and runs smack-dab into trouble in the form of Riley Wheeler. The man with a wicked smile and caramel brown eyes can sure get to Shelby even though she proclaims she has no interest in him. Besides, since uncovering an embezzlement plot, Shelby is fully occupied trying to unravel the mystery of who is behind the crime.
When the criminal starts making threats, and then attacks Shelby, Riley rushes to her aid. But his bad-boy image has Shelby keeping her guard up, until the friendship of the townspeople help her see Riley through her own eyes, rather than that old, worn out image which he had been trying to shed. Together they begin to learn the Lessons of Love in Miller's Bend.
No drinking, no sex, no swearing. A good, clean read, with a strong, suspenseful plot, Christian message and lovable characters.