The Bride’s Secret (Family of Love Series) (A Western Romance Story)

Page Count: Approx more than 270 pages.

A talented sharpshooter…a greedy rodeo master…and a dark secret!

No one can deny that pretty Emily Whittaker is one of the area’s best sharpshooters and a valuable addition to the rodeo circuit. However, she wants nothing more than to be free of the rodeo at last, but her tragic secret keeps her, her brother, and their mother captive.

Handsome and lonely Sam O’Connell, bartender for the Horse N Saddle in Wickenburg, discovers the trio and nothing will ever be the same in his life. After all his years of being a bachelor and believing that love was for everyone else, the woman of his dreams has arrived…if he can save her from the ghosts that haunt her.

Desperate for answers and filled with so much anguish that her thoughts are distorted, Emily becomes lost in the woods one day and an injury threatens her future. The future she’d only just begun to daydream about, featuring her now-beloved Sam, has never felt farther away, and knowing her danger makes the dream feel like it’s slipping through her fingers with each passing second…

Will Sam find Emily in time to save her—and can he defeat the evil and greedy man holding her and her family hostage as part of his rodeo?

Should Emily give up her dream of a happy, normal future with the man she loves in favor of the rodeo life she’s known for so long—and will her secret destroy any chance she has of making the decision for herself?