Unlikely Heroes Collection
(2025)(A book in the Unlikely Heroes series)
An omnibus of novels by Margaret Tanner
Danger and heartache are constant companions for women battling the frontier alone. What they badly need is a hero.
Can isolated loners, and men burdened with secrets, step up and answer a woman’s plea for help?
If so, a lifetime of happiness might just be within their grasp.
Kitty’s Unlikely Hero
Bounty Hunter, Riley Dolton, can’t believe his luck. Five thousand dollars just to find a woman and her son.
Dirt poor, Kitty Spotswood has lived like a hermit to protect her child.
When Riley arrives on the scene, trouble rides with him. By the time he realizes he has been duped it is too late. He has exposed Kitty and her son to grave danger.
Can he help them escape, and if so, will he lose his heart in the process?
And will Kitty ever be able to forgive him for delivering danger to her door.
Polly’s Unlikely Hero
Disgraced army officer, Declan Ellis, lives a reclusive existence after a woman ruined his life.
Polly Jackson is banished from a wagon train for helping a dying woman.
Having shunned women for years, Declan is not happy when Polly arrives at his ranch to deliver some tragic news.
Desperate to not be left an old maid, Polly wants to find herself a husband and have a family.
Declan has plenty of love to bestow upon any children he might have but needs a woman to provide them for him.
A marriage between them would solve both their problems, if they are prepared to take the risk.
If only this unlikely duo can cast off the shackles of their past, together they might achieve their happily ever after.
Amy’s Unlikely Hero
Saxon Ryder has been branded a coward. Only that isn’t the worst of it.
Tied to a tyrant of a man, Amy Logan longs for freedom.
Her son, Charlie, has been teased all his life because of a crippled leg, even though she continually tries to defend him.
Amy meets Saxon on a wagon train heading to Colorado and can’t help being moved by his kindness to her son.
Is there any chance that a man who is wrongfully branded a coward, and woman who live a life of servitude, could find happiness together?
Or are there too many things keeping them apart?
Evie’s Unlikely Hero
Will Evie take the biggest risk of her life?
Used as a gambling chip by her father, Evie is won by a young outlaw. After he talks her into marrying him, they travel to his gang’s secret hideout.
When her husband is killed, Evie is rescued by Woolfe. Even if his intentions are honorable, can she trust a man who carries so many secrets?
When the truth is finally revealed, will it ruin their fledgling love? Or make it stronger?
Ivy’s Unlikely Hero
What will Elliot do when he finds out the woman he loves, is the stepdaughter of his mortal enemy?
Can Ivy help Elliot regain his trust in his fellow man? Or, will Elliot let tragedy from long ago tarnish his life forever?
Elliot and Ivy unwittingly become the pawns in an evil man’s deadly game. In a race for survival, each needs to rely on the other.
Can their fraught relationship survive the trauma it will have to endure?
Genre: Western
Can isolated loners, and men burdened with secrets, step up and answer a woman’s plea for help?
If so, a lifetime of happiness might just be within their grasp.
Kitty’s Unlikely Hero
Bounty Hunter, Riley Dolton, can’t believe his luck. Five thousand dollars just to find a woman and her son.
Dirt poor, Kitty Spotswood has lived like a hermit to protect her child.
When Riley arrives on the scene, trouble rides with him. By the time he realizes he has been duped it is too late. He has exposed Kitty and her son to grave danger.
Can he help them escape, and if so, will he lose his heart in the process?
And will Kitty ever be able to forgive him for delivering danger to her door.
Polly’s Unlikely Hero
Disgraced army officer, Declan Ellis, lives a reclusive existence after a woman ruined his life.
Polly Jackson is banished from a wagon train for helping a dying woman.
Having shunned women for years, Declan is not happy when Polly arrives at his ranch to deliver some tragic news.
Desperate to not be left an old maid, Polly wants to find herself a husband and have a family.
Declan has plenty of love to bestow upon any children he might have but needs a woman to provide them for him.
A marriage between them would solve both their problems, if they are prepared to take the risk.
If only this unlikely duo can cast off the shackles of their past, together they might achieve their happily ever after.
Amy’s Unlikely Hero
Saxon Ryder has been branded a coward. Only that isn’t the worst of it.
Tied to a tyrant of a man, Amy Logan longs for freedom.
Her son, Charlie, has been teased all his life because of a crippled leg, even though she continually tries to defend him.
Amy meets Saxon on a wagon train heading to Colorado and can’t help being moved by his kindness to her son.
Is there any chance that a man who is wrongfully branded a coward, and woman who live a life of servitude, could find happiness together?
Or are there too many things keeping them apart?
Evie’s Unlikely Hero
Will Evie take the biggest risk of her life?
Used as a gambling chip by her father, Evie is won by a young outlaw. After he talks her into marrying him, they travel to his gang’s secret hideout.
When her husband is killed, Evie is rescued by Woolfe. Even if his intentions are honorable, can she trust a man who carries so many secrets?
When the truth is finally revealed, will it ruin their fledgling love? Or make it stronger?
Ivy’s Unlikely Hero
What will Elliot do when he finds out the woman he loves, is the stepdaughter of his mortal enemy?
Can Ivy help Elliot regain his trust in his fellow man? Or, will Elliot let tragedy from long ago tarnish his life forever?
Elliot and Ivy unwittingly become the pawns in an evil man’s deadly game. In a race for survival, each needs to rely on the other.
Can their fraught relationship survive the trauma it will have to endure?
Genre: Western
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