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The Outlaw's Mail Order Bride

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When the West was wild

And man's law favored the few

These extraordinary women could be found...in the heart of an outlaw.

Former outlaw Clay Colby is abuzz with his mail order bride's expected arrival. He's fought long and hard to drag Devil's Crossing out of lawlessness...so when his homestead is set ablaze by a bitter rival, he's heartbroken. There's no woman in the world who'd stand by him now.

But Tally Shannon is no ordinary woman.

After escaping the psychiatric hospital in which she was wrongfully detained, Tally only wants someone to protect her and the little girl under her care. She doesn't mind that Clay's home is dang near burned to the ground—not when he makes her feel so safe. So cherished. But it's only a matter of time before the ghosts of her past come calling...and her loving cowboy must defend his new bride—and the family they built together—to his very last breath.

What People Are Saying About Linda Broday:

"Fans of classic Western tales will delight in the rough-and-tumble world Broday creates..." —RT Book Reviews for To Love a Texas Ranger

"A shining example of the talent of one of the best historical western authors." —Fresh Fiction for Forever His Texas Bride

"Broday's Westerns always captivate with realistic settings, rugged cowboys and feisty heroines." —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars for Forever His Texas Bride

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    • Kirkus

      January 15, 2019
      The Texas Panhandle in the late 19th century is the setting for the first in Broday's (To Catch a Texas Star, 2018, etc.) latest Western romance series, which pairs a wounded woman with an idealistic settler.Ex-outlaw Clay Colby has worked tirelessly to make Devil's Crossing habitable for settlers and just needs a bride to solidify his new life as a rancher. When flame-haired Tally Shannon arrives, she is just as strong and kind as her letters suggested, but she's even more beautiful save for a diamond-shaped brand on her cheek. The victim of a jealous stepmother, Tally was committed to the Creedmore Lunatic Asylum, where she suffered unimaginable physical and mental abuse at the hands of the warden, Slade Tarver. From the first page, Broday puts readers in the middle of the action, when a rival outlaw tries to burn down Devil's Crossing's new buildings and a gunfight ensues. Readers may feel they have missed an earlier installment as characters and events from Clay's past drive much of the immediate action, while the actual plot stalls for most of the book until Clay and Tally set out to avenge her abuse at the asylum. Marriage-of-convenience plots work well when the author takes the time to develop the romantic relationship that should have existed before the "I do's," but Clay and Tally are instantly smitten and stay that way. Tally's inability to trust and Clay's controlling nature could have made for fireworks, but her one-step-forward, two-steps-back attitude is merely frustrating.Two-dimensional characters, slow plotting, and a lack of romance mark this Western "return to sender."

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