Once an Outlaw: A Novel (Barclays)

ISBN: 0440235499

Author: Gregory, Jill

Condition: New

DID HE STEAL HER HEART-OR DID SHE GIVE IT AWAY?A newcomer to Forlorn Valley, Emily Spoon vows never to lose her family or her land again. Here is the future. Uncle Jake and the boys can go straight. She can set up her own dressmaking business. But her dreams of a fresh start turn to dust when a stranger accosts her, demanding to know the whereabouts of the Spoon gang. Heaven help her, Emily never saw a man so handsome. Only later does she learn his name: Clint Barclay, the sheriff who destroyed her family-and now threatens her resolute heart. . . .Clint Barclay rides off, unable to forget the rifle-toting, icy-tongued beauty from a family of outlaws. Emily Spoon swears theyve gone straight, but Clint knows better-hes jailed the Spoons before and knows hell do it again. . . . Then one stunning, burning kiss at a dance changes everything. Suddenly Clint realizes that hes found the only woman hes ever really wanted-but he cant have her . . . not unless he is willing to sleep with the enemy for the rest of his life. . . .