Silky blond hair was a walking, talking personification of complication. Blast if he didn't hate complications, and Sharyah with her alluring brown eyes and

Sharyah Jordan was not supposed to be here. With a bunch of outlaws.for her own protection? She'd rather be locked in her classroom for a whole week with Brandon McBride and his arsenal of tricks, and that was saying something.Ĭade Bennett's heart nearly drops to his toes when he sees Sharyah standing by the desk. Cascade Bennett shattered her dreams only last summer, and now he plans to kidnap her and haul her into the wilderness Heart pounding in shock, Sharyah Jordan gapes at the outlaw staring down the barrel of his gun at her. Now he's back to ask for a second chance. Step into a day when outlaws ran free, the land was wild, and guns blazed at the drop of a hat. Since tragedy seems to strike those she cares for with uncanny frequency, she wants nothing to do with a man who could be killed in the line of duty like her father.īut when an orphan-train arrives at the Salem depot, Victoria is irresistibly drawn toward the three remaining “unlovable” children…and stunned by a proposal that will change all of their lives forever.Ĭan she risk her heart, and her future happiness, on someone she might lose at a moment's notice? Shoulder and enough audacity to come calling. And this time he's got a bullet hole in his Victoria Snyder, adopted when she was only days old, pastes on a smile for her mama's wedding day, but inside she's all atremble. But can she trust her heart to a man haunted by constant danger?

She's loved him for as long as she can remember.

High Desert Haven by Lynnette Bonner