I read a book about 8 years ago that I really liked I want to read it again and can't find it anywhere. Set in the old west, heroine has loved hero for many yeas (there is a pretty big age gap I think) he marrys her out of necessity I don't think it was money related but I cannot say for sure. He is of Hispanic heritage I believe from Spain but could be Latin America. She learned Spanish from a cook or maid thinking it was romantic but never told him she understood Spanish. His mother is the typical evil mother in law who hates her and makes her life miserable. She has a strong personality but is considered weak because she has severe asthma; she has several asthma attacks in the book including one life threatening one. There was some kind of climax along the lines of rustlers or a kidnapping. It's been a while so that is all I can remember. I have no idea who the author is or when it was published. Hope I gave you enough information. Thanks for the help.
Savor the magic of New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer in a dazzlingly sensual story of turn-of-the-century Texas, of a man as enigmatic and forbidding as the sun-drenched land--and the woman who dares to cross into the uncharted territory of his heart.To Bernadette Barron, Eduardo Cortes was the enemy. A noble count with a sprawling ranch in the grand state of  Savor the magic of New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer in a dazzlingly sensual story of turn-of-the-century Texas, of a man as enigmatic and forbidding as the sun-drenched land--and the woman who dares to cross into the uncharted territory of his heart.To Bernadette Barron, Eduardo Cortes was the enemy. A noble count with a sprawling ranch in the grand state of Texas, Cortes challenged her with dark, penetrating eyes that seemed to pierce her very soul. Could he see the burning truth: that she loved him? It is a secret Bernadette vows to keep--especially now that she is to become his wife. For theirs is a marriage bargain, pure and simple. He needs a rich wife to save his ranch; she needs a titled husband.Yet desire will turn a marriage of convenience into a passionate battle of wills, and change an innocent girl into a woman aware of her own powers of attraction. For it is love's fiery initiation that will make Bernadette aware of her own capacity for pleasure as well as her husband's skill at providing it. And it is the sheer force of her own love that will give her newfound strength to battle against the odds to claim a man and a love she will not be denied. . . . ...more