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"Definitely a keeper. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." - M Hartmann, Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer |
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A Woman With a Cause - But Lawless All The Same.Jo O'Malley might have been hell-bent to avenge her husband's murder, but US Marshal Fletcher Collins swore she wouldn't be allowed to take the law into her own hands. Though there was something about her that made him want to take her into his arms... Dressed as a man to do murder, Jo O'Malley met her destiny in the magnetic form of Fletcher Collins, who stopped her from killing - and saved her from the gallows. But love between them was impossible, for the letter-of-the-law marshal seemed to have a badge where his heart should be. |
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Chapter One Dodge City, Kansas, 1882 Josephine O'Malley's stomach clenched tightly with panic as she peered through the night along the dusty street, looking for potential witnesses. She couldn't let anyone recognize her in these clothes that had once belonged to her husband, God rest his soul. Especially after she pulled the trigger. Fighting to keep calm, she opened her long slicker and palmed the walnut handle of her Colt.45 - the handle her husband had warn smooth over the years. He boots tapped lightly over the aging planks along the boardwalk while her spurs chinked a slow rhythm. Music from a tinny saloon piano across the street seemed muffled beneath the erratic pulse that drummed in her ears, but she continued on, soberly watching the mannish lines of her shadow as she walked under a hanging lantern. When she finally stopped outside Zeb Stone's Dry Goods Store, she took a deep breath and tried to relax. Over the past six months, raw fear had compelled her to learn how to handle her husband's guns, preparing for this day, should it come. Hadn't she pictured this moment over and over in her mind, wanted it, known it was necessary? Wasn't it supposed to be filled with righteous determination? Instead, she looked up at the huge painted sign bearing Zeb's name and felt only a sickening knot of intimidation and a horrible surge of dread. She'd never killed a man, never thought she could. It went against everything she ever believed in.... This title is available as an e-book.
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The Marshal and Mrs. O'Malley