Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablance
Publication Date: 3/26/2019
Publication Date: 3/26/2019
Two
worlds in conflict
Two
hearts intertwined
One
love worth fighting for
Wealthy Englishwoman Lady Elizabeth
Baylor longs for adventure. She leaves for America full of hope, only to lose everything
to a villain hiding treachery behind his smile. Lost in this strange and
lawless land, Elizabeth vows to track down the man who did her wrong...but she
can't do it alone. What she needs is someone hardened by the west and
unflinching toward its dangers: notorious bounty hunter Logan Best.
Ill-mannered and seemingly ruthless,
Logan exorcises his dark past by throwing himself into his vengeful
profession—hunting wanted men. There's nothing about the pampered Englishwoman
that should call to him, and yet as their adventure takes them across the wild
and treacherous west, he realizes he'll do anything to keep her safe...and
defend his Lady to his final breath.
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Enjoy this excerpt!
May 29, 1870
Logan strolled into Sheriff Adam White’s office in Abilene and handed
him a letter. White looked up at him and frowned. “You again?”
“Yup.” Logan noticed the man had a few crumbs in his long, black beard,
probably from breakfast. “I already checked at Rinker’s saloon, and he’s out of
town again, so I’m bringing you proof that I found the man Rinker was looking
for. Rosell still had over three thousand dollars on him.” Logan handed out a
leather satchel. “The money is in here. That letter is from a Mr. Clive Macy
and a few citizens of Mirage, Colorado, saying I brought them Mr. Ben Rosell.
The town promptly hanged the man for kidnapping and raping Clive Macy’s
thirteen-year-old daughter.”
White looked into the leather satchel, then back up at Logan. “You
actually found the man? He had a good
three-week start on you.”
“He was easy to track. He was a braggart, and every place he stopped
people remembered him. He also spent a few days at each stop along the way to
Denver—liked to show off. That slowed him down.”
White shook his head. “I’ll be damned.”
“I want you to give all that money to Mr. Rinker and tell him I’ll be
back to collect my bounty. Right now, I’m in kind of a hurry because I
intend to find the man behind Rosell. His name is
Robert Alexander. Have you—”
“Alexander?” White
interrupted, speaking the name as though in shock.
It was then Logan heard an odd whimper from a jail cell behind the wall
where the sheriff sat. White got to his feet.
“Logan, you have no idea—”
“Do you have a woman back
there?” Logan interrupted.
“Well…yes. That’s what I started to tell you. We didn’t quite know what
to do with her. She just rambles crazy when she talks.” White leaned in closer
and dropped his voice. “Logan, she shot a man on the Kansas Pacific. Bloodiest mess you ever
saw! She claimed he attacked her, but heck, they were traveling alone together,
so I don’t know what to believe. We
found the mess just this morning on their Pullman car when the train came in.
The man’s identification says his name is Robert Alexander.”
Logan stepped back. “What?”
“Yes. And he was layin’ in a sleeper car buck naked and covered in
blood. There were dresses all over the bed in the back bedchamber, and they
were covered in blood, too. We found a small pistol laying on the floor, and
the woman—she’s a young thing—she was just sitting in a chair in the parlor
area wearing a nightgown and covered in
blood—her clothes, her face, her hands—it was the most god-awful mess I ever
saw. We’ve been trying to decide what to—”
Logan left him and hurried around the corner, and there in the jail cell
sat what he thought might be a very beautiful woman with blond hair. He
couldn’t be sure because she was covered in so much blood. Even her hair was
stuck together in places from dried blood. His rage knew no bounds. After what
Rosell had told him about Robert Alexander, he could just imag- ine what this
woman had been through. He turned to Sheriff White when the man followed him to
the cell. “Why in hell is this poor woman sitting in there unwashed and
unattended! Can’t you see she’s been through something awful?”
“We just weren’t sure what to do with her—what to believe. She could be
a murderess.”
“Murderess! Hell!” Logan
roared the words so loudly the sheriff stepped back defensively. “I know all
about this Robert Alexander, and I can tell you if she shot him he damn well deserved it! Get that woman out of there.”
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About the author:
USA Today bestseller and award-winning novelist Rosanne Bittner is known as the “Queen of Western Historical
Romance” for her epic love stories and family sagas. Her award-winning,
well-researched books span 1800’s America from coast to coast. Devoted readers
have described her books as “awesome,” “realistic,” and “unforgettable!”
Rosanne and her husband live in southwest Michigan. Visit her at
www.rosannebittner.com.
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