Oringinally written as Ann Carberry Jesse Hogan has come to Bandit’s Canyon seeking the tattooed badman who destroyed his family. His quest for vengeance becomes complicated when he finds the haven for outlaws being run by a beautiful, vulnerable woman. Miranda Perry can’t possibly be as innocent as she seems. Miranda’s dreams of turning Bandit’s Canyon legit are threatened by the rougher men who hide out there these days. She sees trouble in the arrival of the brooding stranger… but she sees something more, too. The sadness in Jesse’s eyes calls to her, and the tenderness of his embrace feels too good to be bad. She promised her mother she'd never fall in love with an outlaw. Until now, until Jesse, she never had a problem keeping that promise. As Jesse lies in wait for his nemesis, he discovers that the only thing sweeter than revenge is a night in the arms of the woman he loves…
Author
Maureen Child was born 28 September 1951 in California, USA. She and her husband enjoy traveling, usually taking road trips with her parents. When she’s at home, she is kept busy with her two grown children and a somewhat confused golden retriever named Abbey. She is busy writing her next book. Under her own name, Maureen Child writes short contemporary novels—books she loves to write because of their fast pace and condensed story telling, she is also writing funny, contemporary paranormal romances. Over the years, she’s written under lots of different names and she prefers the term ‘pseudonym’ to ‘alias’. As Ann Carberry, she wrote western historical romances. As Kathleen Kane, she wrote not only Americana romances, but western paranormal romances as well. As Sarah Hart, she wrote one really spectacular western paranormal that is still one of her favorites. And once, Ann Carberry even wrote a Victorian historical which she absolutely loved doing. She writes paranormal romance novels under the pesudonym of Regan Hastings. Now, a USA Today best selling author of more than ninety romance novels and novellas, she is a five time nominee for the prestigious Rita award from Romance Writers of America. One of her novels, A Pocketful Of Paradise, was made into a CBS-TV movie called The Soul Collector, starring Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood and Ossie Davis.
