Guns & Garters
A flame-haired siren with a secret takes the stage in the Broken Spur Saloon. When the gunsmoke clears, nothing will be the same for those who came to see Delilah's show. Fate brings them together: Tabor Stanton, a rancher with a troubled past...Teddy Gamble, a stagecoach driving spitfire ... Price Ramsey, a sharpshooter at loose ends...Tabitha Wylde, an adventurous Englishwoman ... and Cane Bowman, the man who wants nothing more than to protect her from a danger she refuses to see. Meet the heroes and heroines of Andrea Parnell's sizzling Western romances in this novella-length introduction to the Guns & Garters collection.
A Guns & Garters Western Romance
After tragedy blew Sunny Harlowe’s world apart, she left her old life behind, strapped on a six-shooter and became the most notorious bounty hunter in California—a gun-toting, flashing-eyed beauty who could out-shoot and out-ride any man…even a seductive silken-tongued rogue like Price Ramsey. Never mind that he's the handsomest devil this side of the Rockies—Sunny has been hired to bring him in…dead or alive!
Rugged, rough-and-ready Price Ramsey has always had his way with the fairer sex…until he crossed paths with Sunny Harlowe. As her prisoner on a wild and rollicking run across the west, Price lives for only two things: his freedom, and Sunny hot and eager in his bed. What he gets is a woman of stormy, sizzling desires—and a love that is bigger than both of them…
Lovely young Silvia Bradstreet must escape her dismal life ruled by a drunken uncle who has squandered her inheritance. A chance encounter in the London streets leads to the opportunity for a fresh start in the New World. To claim her destiny Sylvia must summon her courage and her wits. Sylvia's dark fate begins here ... a novella-length prologue to the Gothic romance Dark Splendor.
Silvia Bradstreet comes to an isolated estate off the coast of colonial Georgia to be an indentured servant. But a far different fate awaits her. Clothed in finery and pampered like a queen, she finds herself a pawn in the devious schemes of Wilhelm Schlange, master of Serpent Tree Hall, as he manipulates the family members who hope to inherit his vast fortune. Haunted by ghostly dreams and threatened by the island's deadly secrets, Silvia cannot trust her own senses, much less anyone around her. Most of all, she dare not trust her growing passion for Schlange’s nephew, handsome sea captain Roman Toller. His lips move like a hot flame over her flesh and draw the very breath from her body. Can Roman offer Silvia an escape from her dark fate—or is he leading her closer to destruction?
“This is an entertaining blend of eerie shadows and romantic interludes. An excellent gothic romance.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A beautifully written, lyrical—almost poetic in the narrative—book! . . . If you appreciate a great story and the true beauty of words that are put together the way they should be, you will love DARK SPLENDOR.
—Rendezvous
“The grand Gothic Romance could never be better represented than in DARK SPLENDOR.”
—Affaire de Coeur
“A tantalizing blend of suspense and sensuality, with all the thrills and chills that lovers of the Gothic enjoy.”
—Romantic Times Rave Reviews
If only his kiss had been hard, brief and demanding, but it was not. It was gentle and probing, possessing, and took her breath away. . .Amanda Fairfax met Ryne Sullivan when she came to take possession of the colonial Virginia plantation that was her legacy. She could see resentment burning in his dark blue eyes, yet once in his arms she could feel how fiercely he hungered for her, and how little she could resist his desires or her own. In a place where terror ruled the night and mystery cloaked each move, Amanda could not fully trust her lover or her love, for she sensed every moment of ecstasy might be her last.
“The perfect blend of anticipation and apprehension. . .seductive tale by a superb writer of romantic suspense.”
—Romantic Times
“Takes romance, mystery and intrigue and weaves them into a good story.”
—Rendezvous