Seemingly a story about second chances, “The Outlaw’s Mail Order Bride
Clay Colby and Tally Shannon had a prize on their heads and had wanted posters bearing their resemblance. Settling at the Texas Panhandle, which was definitely considered part of the Wild West as late as after the Civil War, our hero and heroine had a checkered past, the operative word being “checkered.”
What they did and what they had to do to survive did not belong to either black or white. The stretch of gray in-between was so long that even in the early part of the story, you already knew that being an outlaw was never part of their plan. Life just happened to them.
And voila, there they were at the Texas Panhandle trying to start a new life.
Both Clay and Tally’s background stories will tug at your heartstrings. Yes, they were not perfect in any way, shape or form. But they are humans and to borrow from Shakespeare… “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
That sums up Clay and Tally in my eyes. Nevertheless, I still fell in love with them. And you will, too!
The Outlaw’s Mail Order Bride
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The Outlaw's Mail Order Bride
Author: Linda Broday
Series: Outlaw Mail Order Brides, #1
Pub Date: January 29, 2019
ISBN: 9781492651048
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.
