An Outlaw's Christmas by Linda Lael Miller

She has read literally hundreds of books on the subject, explored numerous battlegrounds and made many visits to her favorite, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has witnessed re-enactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor.

Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane.

The daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West. But how long is Sawyer willing to call Blue River home? As they wait out the storm, the handsome loner has Piper remembering long-ago dreams of marriage and motherhood. James’s room behind the schoolhouse says he’s a McKettrick, but he looks like an outlaw to her. The shirtless, bandaged stranger recuperating in teacher Piper St.

But he’s injured in a blinding snowstorm-and collapses into the arms of a prim and proper lady in calico. So, in 1915, he heads to Blue River, Texas, to seek a job as marshal. Sawyer McKettrick isn’t ready to settle down on the Triple M family ranch in Arizona. And when they say 'I do' to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman’s Christmas wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife… He isn’t interested in uprooting Dara Rose and her children, but he is interested in offering her protection, friendship-and passion. It’s 1914, and the sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman…and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband.Ī cowboy at heart, Clay McKettrick plans to start a ranch and finally settle down. Celebrate the holidays with two popular McKettrick tales by #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller-the Queen of Western Romance!

An Outlaw's Christmas by Linda Lael Miller