Without realizing it, Adam stumbles into a big town wedding and accidentally marries Nora Schumacher, a sassy-mouthed mountain of a woman with legs as long as his wanted poster. So what’s a gunslinger to do but get himself unhitched and find a job. Any job. Except Adam keeps getting fired, one odd circumstance after another. And he’s running out of options.
Desolation was supposed to be his safe haven. Except, he’s not only running from his past but from the irresistible woman he married. And worse, he’s finding that he rather likes the enticing, if damnably independent, wife of his. But some men just aren’t the marrying kind. Only, if he leaves, his own life won’t be worth living. If he stays, he puts the lives of his newfound family and the woman he loves on the line. So much for Desolation being the answer to all his problems.
Adam Brady is running from trouble, which always seems to find him. Luck is not his friend. He is trying to avoid the sherif and the target on his head and simply enjoy a quiet, simple life.
Nora Schumacher is seen as ‘one of the guys’ in her small town and deals with her drunken father every day. She is desperate to keep her father from selling her grandfathers land, so she can inherit it when she turns 30 or get married. With her father getting worse, she decides marriage is the way to go.
When Adam and Nora stumble upon each other at the town meeting, they inadvertently get married! Nora is relieved as it solves her problem, but Adam is mortified and refuses to acknowledge the marriage. So, per town rules, he must find a job within 30 days. However that proves difficult when Nora’s friends are determined to make it hard for Adam so he will keep the marriage with Nora and help her save her farm.I had a really hard time with this book because I just could not get behind the plot. The accidental marriage, setting Adam up to fail at every job, the manipulation from both to them…it was just too much and I couldn’t enjoy the story. I didn’t believe the feelings between Nora & Adam which didn’t help matters. It just all felt so silly. I’ve heard that the first book was better, but maybe I’m just not a ‘western romance’ type of reader…I’ll have to revisit that genre another time.
Historical Romance, Western America, Criminal Hero, Gamma Hero, Damaged/Tortured Heroine, Independent Heroine, Virgin Heroine, Working Heroine, Forced Proximity, Three Star, Two Flame
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