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The Badlands Bride (Enchanted)

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Roxanne Harrington is rich, so rich she doesn't know if men want her or her money. After using a dart thrown on to a map, she goes to South Dakota and she advertises for a 'BAD MAN' and believe you me that is exactly what she gets.
I cried from page 53 and I didn't stop until the end of the book. My stars he was a mean, bitter person. Just because a woman had pertended to love his brother, and as soon as his brother left she had come on to Judd, he felt all women were like that. And that Xan would do anything to get her hands on his money.
What he didn't know was as soon as Xan excepted his proposal she had ALL her money transferred to Judd.
Amasa Judd Coltraine was the baddest of the bad. He mistreated Xan from the word go, and he enjoyed it.
Judd took her to a sod house and left her there, when a thunderstorm frighted her she left to try to find Judd.
Xan hurt her ankle, but this only made Judd meaner, he tended her ankle but he only pretended to be kind.
Judd was rich also, but he thought Xan was in with his brothers to trick him and he wanted to teach her a lesson.
From the back of the book: 'bad Man Wanted! Xan Harrington wanted a man who'd love her for herself rather than her fortune. Fate had brought her to the Bad River. Or, more accurately, she had thrown a dart at a map of the U.S.A. and where it had landed she had followed: the Badlands were as good a place as any to find a husband.
She figured that she'd know on sight the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with; so she'd placed an advertisment in the local paper-Bad Man Wanted For A Husband!-and Judd Coltriane had walked into her life. With his deep, sexy drawl and rugged good looks, Xan knew she'd found the perfect man to be the father of her children. But was Judd the simple rancher he seemed? Or would Xan live to regret the day she became a Bad man's bride?'

Xan is an heiress. Her last name happens to be on farm equipment and yet Judd never puts this together. She wants a husband that wants her for herself not her bank account. She ends up in this strange town and she has placed an ad looking for a husband. Judd shows up there and he believes his brothers are behind the whole thing. He didn't have to show up though it's not like his brothers went with him, he went on his own. He sits up a date with Xan and takes her to a rundown house in a rundown truck and pretty much tells her how poor he is. However Xan still wants to wed him after spending 24 hours with him. They set up the wedding for a week out and he contacts her friend May to come to the wedding. May seems like the only voice of reason in this whole book aside from Judd's brothers. Judd turned nasty after the wedding. Of course he would make a few weird comments before but after the wedding or the so called honeymoon he really lets loose. He believes she is a fortune hunter out for his money and he is tired of his brothers trying to set him up. So he married Xan thinking that she was in on it with his brothers. Ironic because she didn't want her money let alone his. His brothers explain things to her and she decides she no longer wants to be married to the nasty Judd. But then she changes her mind and stays and eventually - 5 weeks later he returns to the sod house that he had her believing was his actual house. They made up and then supposedly there was the HEA.
What defies belief is that she has flown out to a strange town and that she is willing to go home with a stranger that lives about 45 minutes out of said town. One would think that if she could tell that the men that proposed to her before were all fortune hunters that she would be a little more leery about who she goes home with. The fact that Judd goes through her purse to get her personal information and this fool doesn't even check her out. She wasn't hiding anything she just didn't tell him about her money because she wanted him to want her for herself not her money just as he wanted to be wanted. I can handle one naïve TSTL characters but TWO??!! Come on someone had to have a brain here, other than May. One wonders how Judd was able to increase his wealth if he couldn't even think enough to check out Xan once he had her personal information.