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The Outlaws: Sam

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Here is book three of The Outlaws Saga! Sam Gentry did not know that he and his two brothers had been cleared of the bank robbery charges. He ended u in Denison, Texas. Low on funds, he accepted the ranch hand position when Rusty offered. However, he never dreamed of who owned it.

Lacey Gentry owned the B&G Ranch. She had a five year old son, Andy, who was her spitting image. Andy was her reason for living! Six years ago she had been married to Sam, during the war. She had not known her father intended to turn Sam over to the enemy until it was too late! She believed Sam had died during transport to a prison. Therefore, she was shocked to see him stride into her office as a new employee! Worse, he believed she had been the one to betray him! He also believed Andy was the result of lovers she had taken after she thought him dead.

Of course, finding out her husband had never died meant he had abandoned her! Tempers were hot on both sides, but so was their passion for each other! However, the ranch was in financial trouble. Lacey had become engaged to her awful neighbor, Taylor Cramer, to save the ranch and have a secure future for Andy. When Taylor found out his fiancé was still married, he set out to get rid of Sam!

***** A new outstanding book by the talented pen of Connie Mason! She has become one of my favorite authors and this story will show all its readers why! More is going on within the story than first meets the eye too. So readers will never get bored or distracted. Highly recommended! I eagerly look forward to her next trilogy! *****

Well this is the final book on The Outlaws: Sam is a person that you can feel it, when you are reading this story, about Sam Gentry and Lacey and their offspring Andy, you feel like you are Lacey and that you are living this story, your self it is so well writting that I couldn't put it down, I read it in one afternoon,Sam and Lacey were lost to each other, because of a betrayel her fathers and she got blame for it, Sam has lost all hiss trust in lacey, but he keeps on lusting after her only it is not lust he still loves her, but dosen't want to admited to himself,I enjoy The Outlaws, Rafe and THe Outlaws, Jess,they were great but I think Sam tops them Both.Connie Mason keep on writting books about families they are great you are great.I love Connie Mason writting.

The story line is well defined by the other reviews. The 3 brother in this saga are each so very different and likeable in their own right but the delightful and unusual aspect that comes thru loud and clear with each of them is there love and loyalty to each other and the integrity with which they serve their beliefs. The heroines are also very unique in personality but somehow they each find the right Gentry brother. I rated (the books) Rafe 3, Jess 4 and Sam a 5-6 easily.The last chapter when they each reunite is so beautifully written you can feel the emotion. It "tied" up the stories perfectly. I'm not a big "western" fan but I really enjoyed this set.

In 1868 Denison, Texas, Rusty Ramsey, foreman of the B&G Ranch, offers Sam Gentry a job after the latter helped during a barroom brawl. Desperately needing work, Sam, who fled Kansas with a bank robbery charge hanging over him, accepts. However, to his surprise, the owner turns out to be his wife Lacey, a northern blueblood if one ever existed. While he still lusts over her, she never forgot the rebel who she believes abandoned her, but left her with a son Andy.

When Lacey, who claims Civil War widowhood, learns that Sam is her husband, she wants him to leave town immediately because she does not want him to interfere with her upcoming marriage. To save the ranch, Lacey plans to wed neighbor Taylor Chase. When her fiancÈ finds out that Sam lives, he uses legal and illegal means to rid himself of his rival even as the love between Lacey and Sam reignites.

Connie Mason's third Outlaw tale, Sam's story, is an exciting Reconstruction Era romance. The story line is fast-paced and filled with numerous twists and turns. The lead characters are a dynamite pair, as they struggle with the past and present leaving little hope for a future together. Connie Mason has written a winning tale that sub-genre fans will fully relish.

Harriet Klausner

Ok I admit it, I'm a Connie Mason Junkie! I love all of her books. I've read and reread them so often I've had to replace them all once!
This is the third and final part of the Outlaw series. The two other brothers, Rafe and Jess, have found wonderful brides who can be gentle and strong at the same time and who have lead them on merry chases. Well Sam already had a bride but told no one of her. They met during the Civil War and were lost to each other soon after marrying. They were betrayed but Sam blames Lacey for it all and Lacey is told that Sam was killed in the war. Sam shows up to work on a ranch and finds that Lacey is the owner. But that's not the biggest suprise, he finds that she has a son who he believes to be the one she had with the man who betrayed him. She knows that her son is Sam's but she is so afraid that he will take him from her she doesn't tell him. She is engaged to marry another man but only to save her ranch. Sam throws a wrench into her plans but she soon discovers that she loves that wrench. Sam struggles with his feelings for her and for the boy who even though there is still a lingering doubt of his parentage, he is starting to love and consider his own.

There are a couple of obsticals in Sam's way though of claiming Lacey and her son, the warrent for his arrest for bank robbery is one, even though he knows he is innocent, and the man who Lacey was to marry. He must fight all of this to win her back.

I loved this book and was so happy to find out how the other brothers were doing at the end also. Connie makes her characters seem like part of your own family. I would highly recommend this book as well as anything else she has written. You'll love them.

A must read for Connie Mason fans. All of the outlaw books are very good. They are filled with so much excitement, romance, mystery and passion. Do yourself a favor and read the Outlaw series as soon as you can-you will not be sorry.

If you want a how to on how to skip all romance and jump straight into the sack then this book is for you. It's also for you if you want to read about a weak willed ninny who doesn't even like her ex, says "no", but still is willing to romp at every opportunity. I always believed "NO" meant just that, but if you buy into this story it proves "no" means "yes" just because he wants it to. The characters jumped around from aggrivating to confused and never really developed an identity of their own. I enjoyed Rafe, it's sad this turned out to be such a loser.