They’re rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards—dark, dashing men on the
wrong side of the law. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only
makes the heart beat faster.
Gavin St.
James, Earl of Thorne, is a notorious Highlander and an unrelenting Lothario
who uses his slightly menacing charm to get what he wants—including too many
women married to other men. But now, Gavin wants to put his shady past behind
him...more or less. When a fiery lass who is the heiress to the land he wishes
to possess drops into his lap, he sees a perfectly delicious opportunity...
A marriage most
convenient
Samantha
Masters has come back to Scotland, in a pair of trousers, and with a whole
world of dangerous secrets from her time spent in the Wild West trailing behind
her. Her only hope of protection is to marry—and to do so quickly. Gavin is
only too willing to provide that service for someone he finds so disturbingly
irresistible. But even as danger approaches, what begins as a scandalous
proposition slowly turns into an all-consuming passion. And Gavin discovers
that he will do whatever is necessary to keep the woman he has claimed as his
own…
Chapter
Two
Union Pacific Railway,
Wyoming Territory, Fall, 1880
Samantha Masters squeezed the
trigger, planting a bullet between her husband’s beautiful brown eyes.
She whispered his name. Bennett. Then screamed it.
But it was the woman in his grasp
she reached for as he fell to the ground.
Though they’d known each other all
of twenty minutes, she clung to Alison Ross as though the younger woman were
the most precious soul in the entire world, and they sank to their knees as
their strength gave out.
Alison’s hold was just as tight around her,
and their sobs burst against each other’s in a symphony of terror, shock, and
abject relief.
What in the hell just happened?
