Hotfooting from Hawthorne
(2024)(Book 15 in the Pioneer Brides of Rattlesnake Ridge series)
A novel by Marisa Masterson
She is a woman with trouble hot on her trail and a child at her side. He is a rancher who handles his Colt revolver with more skill than he does emotions.
Who can love orphans? Ginny struggles with this question even as she witnesses a murder that sends her on the run unwittingly toward the answer to her question.
Ginny Maxwell has one child left as she waits at a train depot in Hawthorne, Nevada. The others left one by one as the orphan train traveled farther west. She wanted to believe each had found homes where they would be clothed and fed. She could not hope for them to be loved. Growing up as a foundling, she knew adults rarely wasted affection on orphans.
While she and the unclaimed orphan wait for the eastern bound train that would take them back to Chicago, their lives change with one slash of a shiny knife. A man stabs a lone woman waiting on the platform. At Ginny's gasp, he realizes she and the little boy have seen him.
A frantic race to escape begins, and desperation sends them into the back of a tarp-covered wagon. Hiding there, she hears the whistle. They had missed their train and would stay in Nevada with a killer on their trail.
Deke Ramsey struggles with the day-to-day needs of his new ranch. He left his days as a bounty hunter behind him. The man does not want the trouble he discovers when he throws back the tarp and finds stowaways in his wagon. However, he is hard put to ignore the child's pleading gaze or the woman's tempting promise to keep house for him.
What starts as an innocent arrangement will set him on the path of a killer and a group of do-gooders from the nearby town. Will a forced marriage end in a happy family or with a dead wife and child?
Genre: Historical Romance
Who can love orphans? Ginny struggles with this question even as she witnesses a murder that sends her on the run unwittingly toward the answer to her question.
Ginny Maxwell has one child left as she waits at a train depot in Hawthorne, Nevada. The others left one by one as the orphan train traveled farther west. She wanted to believe each had found homes where they would be clothed and fed. She could not hope for them to be loved. Growing up as a foundling, she knew adults rarely wasted affection on orphans.
While she and the unclaimed orphan wait for the eastern bound train that would take them back to Chicago, their lives change with one slash of a shiny knife. A man stabs a lone woman waiting on the platform. At Ginny's gasp, he realizes she and the little boy have seen him.
A frantic race to escape begins, and desperation sends them into the back of a tarp-covered wagon. Hiding there, she hears the whistle. They had missed their train and would stay in Nevada with a killer on their trail.
Deke Ramsey struggles with the day-to-day needs of his new ranch. He left his days as a bounty hunter behind him. The man does not want the trouble he discovers when he throws back the tarp and finds stowaways in his wagon. However, he is hard put to ignore the child's pleading gaze or the woman's tempting promise to keep house for him.
What starts as an innocent arrangement will set him on the path of a killer and a group of do-gooders from the nearby town. Will a forced marriage end in a happy family or with a dead wife and child?
Genre: Historical Romance
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