Kathleen Ball
ASIN: B010MH9DQ2
Publisher: Lasso Springs Publishing
Pages: 186
A mail-order bride becomes scarred and is betrayed by her would be groom. A cowboy with honor comes to the rescue. Will the scars of their past prevent their happily ever after?Winner of the 2015 Diamond Lear Award for Best Historical RomanceTexas, 1867. Shannon left the slums of New York for a better life out west as a mail order bride. But when she refuses her betrothed’s request to become a prostitute instead, he slashes her face and leaves her bleeding on the Asherville streets. Hopeless and scarred for life, she doesn’t expect the man who lends a helping hand to be tall, rugged, and single…Cinders doesn’t stand for cruelty to women, but after he offers the injured Shannon a job, he gets way more than he bargained for. When the widower is forced to wed the woman he saved, he begrudgingly accepts. With horse thieves and local Indian troubles on his mind, he’s not sure about the added ...