The Bounty Hunter's Bride

Sandra Steffen

Литагент HarperCollins EUR

VIRGIN BRIDESCelebrate the joys of first love with unforgettable stories by your most beloved authors.THE VIRGIN AND HER SHOTGUN GROOMWounded bounty hunter Kane Slater had sought refuge at Josie McCoy's secluded mountain cabin. Still, the handsome loner was not about to succumb to his nurse's gentle touch. Not even when Josie told him how he could repay her for saving his life…. Because honorable men bent on remaining bachelors didn't trifle with virgins.But how could Kane convince four very angry McCoy men that he hadn't seduced their precious Josie? For they would let him off their mountain only if he took Josie as his wife! And that's how Kane Slater became a shotgun groom…to one very hopeful bride.

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“I’ve decided not to stand in your way if you want to end things.”

Kane almost fell off the fence. “You’re not?”

Josie shook her head, albeit sadly. “This was all my fault in the first place—Daddy and the boys forcing you to marry me when you didn’t...we didn’t...I still haven’t...”

Kane tried to relax, but his heart chugged to life. After that, the changes taking place elsewhere in his body made relaxing out of the question.

“I want you to know I’m sorry. I only did it because I wanted you to be my first lover. I still want you to be my first lover, but I’m not going to force anything on you that you don’t want.”

Kane didn’t know how long he’d been staring at Josie’s mouth, but as he watched her lips move, he knew she’d never have to force him to do anything. Because he suddenly found himself wanting to kiss her, long and slow and deep, over and over and over.

Dear Reader,

July brings you the fifth title of Silhouette Romance’s VIRGIN BRIDES promotion. This series is devoted to the beautiful metaphor of the traditional white wedding and the fairy-tale magic of innocence awakened to passionate love on the wedding night. In perennial favorite Sandra Steffen’s offering, The Bounty Hunter’s Bride, a rugged loner finds himself propositioned by the innocent beauty who’d nursed him to health in a remote mountain cabin. He resists her precious gift...but winds up her shotgun groom when her father and four brothers discover their hideaway!

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