"A wonderful second book in the Outlaw Hartes series!"
This is the second book in the series Outlaw Hartes and is
the story of Jesse James Harte. Jesse had been a bad boy
until he turned his life around and become a law
enforcement officer. He still feels as if he's living down
his bad boy image. He's attracted to the new schoolteacher, Sarah McKenzie but
she's too sweet and good for him to even think he has a
chance with her. What he doesn't know is that Sarah is
running away from having been brutally attacked and left
for dead at the school she taught at in Chicago. When she
comes to him with accusations that ten-year-old Corey
Sylvester may be being abused by his step-father Seth,
Jesse can't believe it. He's known Seth, and Corey's mother
Ginny, for years. Ginny had been in an abusive marriage
before she met and married Seth. When Sarah starts experiencing strange things such as a man
in her back yard and vandalism, she doesn't know what to
think and Jesse decides it's up to him to protect her. What
happens is that they become more attracted to each other
but are they ready for a serious relationship? I was so engrossed in this book that I read half of it in
very little time. Then in between my motherly chores, I
finally finished the rest. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have
one warning, be sure to have plenty of time set aside for
this book because once you pick it up, you will not put it
down. It was practically a one sitting read for me!
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted February 6, 2002
SummaryJesse James Harte isn't ready to settle down. If he were,
he could have his pick of the women in Star Valley. Not
only is he the very eligible police chief of Salt Creek,
but he also has the irresistible allure of being the town
bad boy in his not-so-distant youth. If he were looking for
a wife, he would pick somebody who knew how to have a good
time, certainly not a quiet, shy mouse of a schoolteacher
like Sarah McKenzie. So why can't he stop thinking about
her soft beauty and the shadows in her luminous green eyes?
He knows she has secrets and his lawman's curiosity won't
let him rest until he finds out what they are.
Sarah has come to Star Valley hoping the peace of rural
Wyoming will help her escape the nightmares that haunt her
after she was beaten severely and raped by a student at her
previous job teaching at an inner-city school in Chicago.
Jesse Harte, the uncle of one of her favorite students at
her new school, terrifies her. He's so big, so completely
male, but she swallows her fear when she begins to suspect
one of her students is being abused. She turns to Jesse to
investigate and in the process discovers a kind, caring man
inside all those rough edges.
He begins to help her heal, but can he protect her when a
new nightmare looms?
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