The Gunslinger's Untamed Bride (Harlequin Historical) [Mass Market Paperback]

Stacey Kayne (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Historical | Publication Date: July 1, 2008

She’s come for his life… Feisty Lily Carrington wants revenge for the murder of her father. She’s finally tracked down the killer – and she’s going to make him pay… He’ll fight to keep it… Juniper Barns is now a hard-working sheriff, protecting the lives of those in need. But he can’t outrun his violent past any more. It’s time to stand and fight.  Only his opponent is beautiful Lily – a vulnerable girl looking for vengeance, who’s in danger of losing her heart to the one man she’s forbidden from loving…

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373295049
• ISBN-13: 978-0373295043
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #531,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stacey Kayne grew up at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. She spent her summers camping in the high country and adventure seeking with her brothers. Though her passion for writing came as a shock after buying her first computer in the summer of 2001, it's not a wonder her first novels were borne from daydreams about fictional characters and their wild escapades through those rugged mountains.

An American history college course was a major catalyst in her writing aspirations. Steeped in facts and images of the American West, her mind began its usual wandering. With a computer at her disposal, she decided to type out her daydreams--halfway through her history course, Bride of Shadow Canyon was created.

While writing her first western, Stacey discovered that an adventurous setting with ever-changing untamed scenery is a driving force of her imagination. Rugged, dusty, wild, resilient--there's such an elemental connection between the setting and the characters. Her mind is constantly searching for ways to submerge new characters in the beauty and grandeur of the American West.

For more information about Stacey and her books, visit her Web site www.staceykayne.com

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect sequel in a grand western series, January 13, 2009

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Sheila Raye (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gunslinger's Untamed Bride (Harlequin Historical) (Mass Market Paperback)

The Gunslinger's Untamed Bride is my favorite in a long line of gritty, action-packed westerns by Stacy Kayne.

Lily Carrington lived an ideal childhood until a teenaged-gunslinger gunned down her father, and her mother died of a broken heart. Taken from the wilds of Missouri and forced to fit into San Francisco society, Lily refused to fit the mold demanded by her high-society uncle and took over the family business. Although she dresses in the finest gowns and sips hot chocolate served by her personal maid, Lily is a tough, intelligent and capable business woman who makes millions for her company, L. P. Carrington Industries, using her initials to hide that she is a woman. While reviewing the employee register of a lumber camp she has recently taken over with her delightful cousin Regi, she discovers the name of the gunslinger who ruined her life--Juniper Barns.

Juniper Barns was forced into gun fights as a boy. In Kayne's Bride of Shadow Canyon, Juniper finds a home. As a young man, his past comes looking for him and, after a gunfight in front of his adopted sisters, he rides away. He finds a temporary home and job as the Sheriff of a lumber camp in Pine Ridge. The camp has been sold and the workers are suffering while they await their back pay.

Lily arrives at her newly purchased lumber camp and is knocked out cold in an accident. Juniper rescues her to discover she had more than business on her mind--she intends to kill him. Their journey to save the lumber camp places them in one dangerous or humorous situation after another while Lily learns to forgive the man she has come to see as more than a ruthless gunfighter.

More importantly, Juniper forgives himself.

As always, Kayne delivers action in a realistic, historic western setting. I learned a thing or two while enjoying a hunky gunslinger pitted against an intelligent heroine deserving of her happy-ever-after.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great western romance!, February 16, 2010

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T. Leibfried "tbsomedy" (Iowa) - See all my reviews
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I love Stacey Kayne's books. She writes in such a way that you really get to know the characters, each of them dear to your heart in their own way. When the story's over it's almost as though you are losing friends. Though each of her books has a totally different story line, they are also wonderfully familiar. Her books will be some of the very few I keep around. As always with Stacey--highly recommended!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HISTORICAL WESTERN, February 7, 2010

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Arvella Lanquist "AVID READER" (Kalispell, MT, US) - See all my reviews
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ANOTHER OF STACY KAYNES GREAT BOOKS THAT I REALLY ENJOYED. I USUALLY GIVE THE BOOKS AWAY THAT I HAVE READ BUT I AM KEEPING HERS SO I CAN REREAD THEM AGAIN LATER.