Cold Night, Warm Stranger by Jill Gregory

Author:Jill Gregory [Gregory, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Historical, Western, Montana, Cowboys
ISBN: 9780440224402
Google: c-KLKwNgRxYC
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1999-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

While Quinn loaded the wagon and conferred with Jim Tyler, Alice Tyler approached Maura outside of the general store.

"Your husband never hesitated," she said softly, giving her dainty head a slight shake. "He risked his own life to save mine. I have four young boys at home, none of them older than twelve. They need me. I'll never forget what your husband did for me today—and for them."

"I just thank God he was there to help." Maura shuddered. She glanced around the gray little town, where people were beginning to scatter and once again disappear indoors. "When we decided to come here, we thought Hope would be a safe, quiet place to settle down and raise a family. But now—"

"A family? Do you mean to say ... is there a little one on the way?" Alice asked.

Maura nodded, her lips curving in a happy smile. "Yes, there is." She heard Serena Walsh suck in her breath. Her face wore a frozen expression. The woman had remained nearby ever since the shooting, even accompanying them to the mercantile. She hadn't said much to anyone other than Quinn, but she was listening to everything that went on. And apparently she was stunned by what she'd just heard.

"Not for some months yet," Maura added, refusing to glance again at Serena. "But soon, yes, we'll be expanding our family."

"That's wonderful. And all the more reason to rid the town of the gang!" Alice exclaimed.

"But it's so dangerous." Maura's dark eyes moved to Quinn, his face set with purpose as he spoke with Jim Tyler and put the last of the supplies in the wagon.

A knot of fear twisted inside her. "Alice, aren't you afraid for your husband?"

"With all my heart. But it's even more dangerous not knowing when the gang is going to return, or what they're going to do next. If no one stands up to them, they'll just get bolder and more vicious. That's what's been happening for months. Jim and Sheriff Owen tried tracking them before, but couldn't find a trace. But now that your husband has wounded one of them, perhaps the blood will leave a trail."

Maura swallowed hard and nodded. "Let's hope so. And let's hope the wounded man and his brother don't get the chance to put up much of a fight."

"Your husband may not have wanted to wear a sheriff's badge," Alice Tyler said softly, her eyes meeting Maura's, "but right now he's our best hope for ridding the town of those animals."

Turning to look at Quinn again, Maura knew she was right. From the first moment she'd set eyes on him back in the Duncan Hotel, she'd known that he was a man who could handle whatever peril or challenge life threw his way. There was no braggadocio about him as there was in

young Lucky Johnson—only the quiet steel of a man who knows his own abilities, has honed them keenly, and is prepared to pit them and his own nerves against anything that stands in his way.

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