When Lightning Strikes
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Kidnapped from her Oregon-bound wagon train, a schoolteacher falls into the hands of a handsome bounty hunter and finds herself swept up in an entirely different kind of adventure
Abigail Bliss can't tell anyone her real name. Her father insists on using an alias for their sudden move to Oregon—a turn of events that signals trouble. When bounty hunter Tanner McKnight kidnaps her, determined to take her to her wealthy grandfather in Chicago, Abby vows not to go quietly. This lawless, untamed man is everything her father warned her against, yet as they traverse the perilous plains, Abby comes to view her abductor as her protector. What will happen to the unexpected passion that burns between them when they reach their destination and Abby must face a surprising legacy that could keep her and Tanner forever apart?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A tall, dark and dangerous hero; a courageous and determined heroine; and a tightly constructed, absorbing plot are some of the pleasures of Becnel's (Where Magic Dwells) latest romance. Her story opens in 1855 in St. Joseph, Mo., where Abigail Bliss and her father are preparing to leave with one of the scores of wagon trains heading west. Abby, distressed by her father's sudden decision to sell their house and move to Oregon, and bewildered by his insistence that they adopt a false surname, figures out quickly that something is wrong. But neither she nor her father is aware that their convoy has been joined by two men who are searching for her--Tanner McKnight, a bounty hunter hired to find Abby and take her to her grandfather in Chicago, and Cracker O'Hara, an assassin who has been hired to kill her. Tanner succeeds in kidnapping a furious Abby and, during their perilous journey back to Missouri, he fights to protect her from O'Hara and to protect himself from his growing love for her. Becnel has skillfully blended romance and adventure in a seamless narrative enriched by a well-researched and vividly realized historical background.
