A WILD SOUTHERN ANGEL She was the daredevil of Shelby County. No fine southern gentleman could tame beautiful Mourning Kathleen Howard until a dangerously handsome stranger rode into her life and took her breath away with a deep, burning kiss that defied her to sacrifice a girl's innocence for a woman's desire. A DEVILISH TEXAS ROGUE Clint Kincaid knew what he wanted from a beautiful woman —- and it didn't include love or marriage. But his obligations were clear. He would escort his exquisite stepsister across the wild frontier. He would defy the elements to protect her from danger and his own fiery instincts ... to protect her from the passions that flared between them. As the nation teetered on the brink of the Civil War, they would ride from an elegant Memphis plantation to a magnificent Texas ranch and on into the irresistible splendor of the Sierra Nevadas in hot pursuit of a tangled destiny caught between teasing and torment, innocence and desire.
Author
Barbara Elaine Gunter was born in San Diego, California, to William Samuel Gunter, Jr., a naval officer and Edna Marie (née Davidson) Gunter, a homemaker. From the age of three she lived in Midland, Texas and graduated from Midland High School. After she received a degree in elementary education from North Texas State University, she taught elementary school in Midland, Texas, while working on her Master’s Degree and certification for Language and Learning Disabilities at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Elaine currently resides in Austin, Texas, where her son, Chuck, also lives. She has two daughters, Lesley who resides in Raleigh, N.C. and Ashley, who lives in San Diego, California. Elaine Coffman is a New York Times bestselling author with a large international following. She has penned novels in both the historical romance genre and suspense. A lover of history, she has penned several novels set in Scotland, Regency England, Italy and the American West. To date, she is the author of nineteen novels and five novellas. While writing her first novel, My Enemy, My Love, she found herself inspired by a letter her great-great grandmother, Susannah Jane Dowell Shacklett wrote in 1920, telling about her journey from Brandeburg, Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas, and then going with an army escort to El Paso, Texas, where her brother, Ben Dowell, a veteran of the Mexican War, was El Paso's first mayor. Elaine continued to write best-selling, award-winning books until the publication of her eleventh novel, If You Loved Me, which was the last book of her beloved Mackinnon series and her first book to hit the New York Times bestseller list. Her first suspense novel, Alone in the Dark, was published by Pocket books in 2006.
