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Outlaw Bride follows a fierce woman condemned to be hung, with only one way to escape: marriage. Five years earlier, she saved the life of the sheriff who would later arrest her. In an act of desperate mercy, he proposes a temporary marriage to secure her reprieve. As they become bound, she hopes for permanence, while he wrestles with the bond he thought temporary. The story unfolds amid saloons, law, and the unresolved tension between duty and longing, painting a tense Western romance where redemption and survival collide.
First publish date: 1991
Genre: Western Fiction/Western Romance
Authors: Katherine Compton
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