The Rancher's Outlaw Bride

Brides of Cactus Gap #2

by Anna St. James

THE RANCHER'S OUTLAW BRIDEHistorical Inspirational Western RomanceSweet and CleanNovelette/Short StoryEmily Parker is an outlaw on the run. Dressed as a boy and wounded by a bullet, she seeks shelter from the cold winter's night in Jake Stewart's old barn. Barricading herself in a stall behind a bale of hay, she's ready to shoot anyone who dares enter her temporary sanctuary.When Jake discovers an injured fugitive hiding in his barn, his only thought is to save the young man's life. When he discovers his patient is a lady in disguise, he realizes he's stumbled upon trouble with a capital T. As he nurses Emily back to health, Jake learns the true meaning of love and vows to help her anyway he can . . . even if it means marriage.

Genres: Romance

41 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 19, 2013

About the author

Anna St. James grew up watching the classic westerns during the golden age of television. Rawhide, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, The Wild, Wild West and Bonanza were just a few of her favorites. Later on she became a fan of Little House on the Prairie and Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman; and later still, The Love Comes Softly Series and Sarah Plain and Tall. Her love of Texas and history made writing historical western romances a natural choice. Married to her own special hero, Anna makes her home in the Lone Star State.

Classic Romance: Short and Sweet
Historical Western Romance
Inspirational Romance

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Reviews

[Terri Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet romance

I really enjoyed meeting Jake and his new bride. This author weaved a wonderful romance between these two with many twists and turns along the way. I look forward to the next story in the series.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet

It was a sweet romance. I liked very much. A enjoyable romance with wonderful characters. If anything was wrong it was to short.

[Mercedes Herman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short story great

This was a very satisfying story, could be a very good TV drama, I enjoyed the story . Hope to read more

[Haley Whitehall · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a clean historical western romance short story. The heroine, Emily, joined her father and two brothers who robbed banks for a living after her mother died. She never approved of robbing banks, but they were the only family she had.

Wounded after robbing the bank in Cactus Gap, a rancher finds her in his barn. He nurses her back to health and they fall in love. I didn't like the story jumping ahead in time. It seemed a lot was left unwritten, and the romance developed too quickly. Still, it was an enjoyable read.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okay. I had a little trouble with how quickly the rancher "hid" the evidence, though. He had no idea just what he was dealing with at the time. Just because it was a girl-not the man, that he'd thought at first-didn't mean she wasn't dangerous...Look at Bonnie(from Bonnie and Clyde). Once I got past that, though the story itself wasn't too bad.

[Beverly McCall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this clean historical western romance. I particularly appreciate Ms. James' lead characters, in particular, the female lead, Emily. Ms. James's ability with developing multi-dimensional characters is asset to her writing. Likewise, the same is true with her use of descriptive language and dialog.

[Lisa C. · Rating 2 out of 5]

So predictable and unrealistic. He fell in love with her in record time and fixed all her problems. Not worth the 20 minutes it took to read it.