Jed (The Rock Creek Six) (Volume 4)

Jed is book #4 in a 6 book series written by Linda Winstead Jones and Lori Handeland. If you liked the Magnificent Seven, you'll love the Rock Creek Six! Six elite Confederate soldiers band together after the War Between the States, hiring out their guns to protect lawless towns. Violence is all they know, until they make their way to Rock Creek, Texas. Hannah Winters is summoned to Rock Creek by a cryptic message from a sister she hasn't seen in many years. When the stagecoach is robbed, and she and the the passengers are left stranded on the road, she finds herself butting heads with fellow passenger Jed Rourke. Jed's old flame has recently become a widow, and she wants Jed to make sure the man who murdered her husband is punished. The accused is a mild-mannered shopkeeper who maintains his innocence. He's also Hannah's brother-in-law. Jed and Hannah find themselves on opposite sides of a scandalous murder case, but at the same time they're constantly drawn together. Is Hannah the woman who can finally cure Jed of his need to wander? Is he the man to heal the broken heart she hides so well?