Fugitive Hearts

Seeking the truth is a lawman's duty. Justice—and love—is far more complicated. Everyone in Parsons, Kansas, considers hotel owner Claire Daines a respectable, decent woman. Until she shocks the entire town when she rushes into a saloon in her nightclothes to confess to an inebriated lawman. "Sheriff, I shot my husband." Is it an accident, as she claims? Or is it murder? As Sheriff Frank Garrity unravels the widow's surprising subterfuge, the truth will challenge his notions about justice.The tough, hard-drinking lawman cannot shield himself from another devastating loss. He must choose between his desire for Claire and his duty to uphold the law. This poignant Western romance takes readers back to Kansas in the 1870s where an abused woman's fight for her life and a child's future clashes with a lawmen's determination to instill order on the uncivilized frontier. Read all four books in the 10th...