HISTORICAL ROMANCE - Peach Smith spends long days cooking and cleaning for Scurlock's Hotel in Coffeyville. It's a hard, lonely life that madkes her long for escape, but she's ensible enough not to trust Bob Dalton's sweet promises of a future together in Brazil if she halps his gang rob the town bank. Will Wesley may be an ebittered lawman taking too much comfort in the bottle, but he's sober enough to know the Dalton gang means trouble...and that Peach Smith, with her innocent heart, may be caught right in the middle of it. He's right. The big robbery finds the Faltons show in cold blood, innocent citizens dead...and Peach holding stolen money. Desperate and afraid, Peach begs Will to find out who tipped the law to the gang's plot, and caused the death of the only man who half-way cared about her. It's a job that puts Will on the razor's edge between duty and raging desire. And when he kisses ignite the smoldering passions in Peach's body and soul, he wonders if she's thinking of him...or her dead outlaw. Now just one thing stands in the way of their future together...the past... 1998. 345 pages. PB in very good condition.
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