After the death of their father, the McKenzie sisters, Meg, Annabelle and Ruby try the normal ways for women to earn a living in a small western town. When they fail, the McKenzie sisters decide to take up their father's profession, bounty hunting. Tough, resilient and badass to the core, they soon learn that they don't need a man to protect them even if that man is the handsome sheriff who has stolen Meg's heart. Kick off this adventure with Desperate the first installment of this new historic western series, Lipstick and Lead.

Second Chances at Love Can Be Deadly Meg McKenzie has been responsible for her sisters since she was twelve when her mother died. While she longs to have a normal life like all young women, she must dress in pants and take on a man’s job as a bounty hunter in order to provide for her sisters. In this western historical romance, she has her pistols set on one last bounty to pay off the farm and began to live her dream. But one man stands in her way. One man that can’t see past her bounty hunter façade to see the true woman inside. Sheriff Zach Gillespie has a secret. In the small Texas town of Zenith, there is only one woman who could calf rope his heart. Unfortunately, Meg McKenzie has the opportunity to expose his secret to the world. In the past, she’d already left him vulnerable, naked, and tied up and now she’s on the prowl again. He must choose what kind of man he is, a law-abiding sheriff or an on the run outlaw. Will her belief in him lead him down the right path? Will she give him a second chance to show he’s the only man for her?

The Hunt of a Lifetime Becomes a Journey of the Heart Annabelle McKenzie stays at home and takes care of the farm and the bookkeeping for their family bounty hunting business while her two sisters take all the risks. Except that she’s grown bored and longs for adventure. The chance to show her sisters that she’s just as capable of bringing a man to justice and collecting a bounty as they are. When opportunity bumps into her at the bank, she recklessly follows her prey out of town. Only she soon realizes she’s chosen the wrong man to hunt. Beau Samuels has a dark secret that goes beyond the price on his head. And now there’s a wanted poster with his face plastered in every small Texas sheriff’s office. As if things couldn’t get worse, now he has a novice in a skirt brandishing a gun and determined to collect his reward. Could he get away from this spitfire with his heart intact? When Annabelle unlocks the secrets to his heart and reveals the true man behind the wanted poster, can she lay aside her scruples and allow herself to love an outlaw?

Sometimes the Past Refuses To Stay In The Past In west Texas, bounty hunter, Ruby McKenzie loves using her beauty and wiles to chase bad guys and bring them to justice. Her married sisters refuse to let her pursue criminals alone so Ruby takes her greenhorn cousin Caroline out on a hunt, where they stumble upon the cowboy who rejected Ruby. Deke Culver, the only man who ever resisted her charm. Bounty hunter Deke Culver is shocked when Ruby, the woman he dreams of, rides into his camp and steals his outlaw. After Carolyn shoots a bank robber, Deke convinces Ruby that her cousin is one bullet away from getting hurt. Alone, the two embark on a journey to recapture Ruby’s father’s killer, unprepared for the unfulfilled feelings that are reawakened. But Deke has secrets that haunt him and keep him from committing to a woman. Can Ruby heal his wounded heart and help him learn to love again? Or will those skeletons keep him prisoner? Download this lively western historical romance and start reading it now! Other Historical Romance by Sylvia McDaniel Lipstick and Lead •Desperate •Deadly •Dangerous •Daring •Determined - August 2015 The Burnett Brides: •Rancher Takes a Bride •Outlaw Takes a Bride •The Marshal Takes a Bride •The Christmas Bride The Cuvier Women: •Wronged •Betrayed •Beguiled Other Historical Romances •A Hero’s Heart •A Scarlet Bride

Revenge or Reprieve? Hell hath no fury like a woman betrayed. After Hannah Williams is trained to be a bounty hunter, her first goal is to kill her stepfather and rescue all the girls from Mrs. Hutchin’s whorehouse. Knowing her life is in danger, she returns to Hide Town, Texas only to discover the handsome preacher who had refused to help her, being beaten. Hating him for how he’d turned his back on her, she can’t walk away and leave him to die. Showing him mercy, she takes him to her hideout where she soon learns the preacher has secrets of his own. Jackson Colster learns another young girl has been sold into prostitution and helps her to escape until he’s caught and beaten by the madam’s goons. Left to die on the prairie, he’s soon rescued by the one face he can’t forget, Hannah Williams. The girl he refused to help. Can the preacher keep the girl from seeking the revenge she craves and heal her wounded past or will she help him get over his haunting nightmares? A small-town church, a town run by a corrupted lawman and a crooked madam stand between these two wounded souls.

The Bumbling Female Bounty Hunter meets a dime novelist and does he have a story to tell. Escaping her matchmaking mother, Caroline Mckenzie becomes the bumbling female bounty hunter. Luck protects her from her inept self, until she meets Trent Holmes. Then all bets are off. Using his past experiences riding with a gang, Trent Holmes is writing dime novels, trying to stay alive. Until Caroline attempts to arrest him for the crimes he’s hoping to escape. With secrets between them, can two misfits come together and find their path before their pasts tear them apart?

Some Husbands Just Won't Die On the brink of losing everything, Dora Tennyson learns her thieving dead husband has been seen alive and well in Fort Worth. Determined to capture the man who stole her inheritance, she becomes a bounty hunter. Only problem is, three orphan children and one gorgeous cowboy stands in her way. Jesse Moore vows revenge on the man who fatally poisoned his sister, Leo Tennyson…her husband. Left with his sister's three children to care for, he's shocked when a woman shows up claiming to be Leo's legal wife. Who will find Leo first, the betrayed bounty hunter or the enraged brother? Along the trail, sparks fly between Dora and Jesse, igniting an inferno. Will desire bind them together forever or will the past tear them apart? Defiant is a slighty spicy historical western romance novel of 50,000 words.

A Burning Need for RevengeAddie King will stop at nothing to get her revenge. Not even a Texas Ranger can slow her down. But she's more than happy to wreck havoc in the lawman's life, if he gets in her way. Until the night she realizes she may have met her match. Texas Ranger, Wesley Selig knows that a savage gang is being run from Central Texas and is determined to find who they're working for. Only problem a devious redhead who is under the false belief she's a bounty hunter. Determined that only she will bring in the ruthless outlaws, they play a dangerous game of cat and mouse, until she's caught in his trap. Can the lawman and the bounty hunter bring in the mysterious ringleader creating mayhem in the county? Or will her need for revenge and his need for justice tear them apart? Devious is a slightly spicy, historical western romance novel of 50,000 words. This book is Free with Kindle Unlimited! Lipstick and Lead Series Desperate Deadly Dangerous Daring Determined Deceived Defiant Devious

Evil touched Quinlan once. Will it do so again? The best thing that ever happened to Quinlan Clark was the day the law took her to an orphanage. Now, the time has come for Quinlan and the other young teachers to go out on their own as mail-order brides. But childhood nightmares still haunt Quinlan, keeping her terror of men firmly set. After ten years of hunting the men who killed his brother, Will Adams has finally come home. His mother, determined to spoil grandbabies, finds him a mail-order bride he has no interest in. But from the moment Will lays eyes on his skittish bride, he's smitten. With secrets between them, the two try to start a life together, but one of their pasts isn't through with them yet. Can Will kill to protect someone he loves? And is Quinlan's new husband just like her bloodthirsty father?