Bounty Hunter's Bride

by Carol Finch

Book Overview

Hanna Malloy was desperate to make her way west. And Cale Elliot was the perfect choice to launch her into a life of adventure. Now, since their hasty wedding, the legendary bounty hunter dared her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037329235X
• ISBN13: 9780373292356
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely delightful western

Carol Finch has become one my authors to follow. She has a way with dialogue that is simply wonderful. The plot of this book is a richard gere/julia roberts "runaway bride" set in the 1870's! Except our bride has more depth and spunk and our hero is to die for!!....Bounty Hunter's bride won't get the nobel prize but it will stay on my keeper shelf as a book to read when I want to just enjoy.......I hated to see this one end! Don't let the "harlequin" fool you. It's 300 pages and all of them were thick with plot, emotion and a dog that became my favorite canine in literary history!

An exciting and fast paced story

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It has been wonderfully reviewed below, so I will just say that it was a fun and action-filled. I always love the wonderful dialog Carol uses with her characters. She captures humor as well as tenderness. You won't be disappointed with this book. It's a keeper.

I'll Be The Bounty Hunters Bride!

What can I say, I LOVED this book! This is one of my favorite books! I have this on my keeper shelf and thats were its staying! This was the first book by Carol Finch that I ever read, and I didn't want this book to end. I recomend this book to everybody who loves romance!This is a MUST READ!!!

MOST EXCELLENT - A PLUS 5 STAR RATING

Talk about a gal who seeks personal freedom, not knowing what she is getting into, with determination and willingness to roll with the punches, Hanna Malloy is the embodiment of all our dreams.She uses the most innocent idea of marriage for protection against her father's domineering ways. It takes Cale's insight to bring about the father-daughter reconciliation.Hanna does not want to be a decorative noneity to be used by her father to further his shipping dynasty. She has done all in her power to obtain his love. But he shut her out with the death of his beloved wife, Clarissa and their son.Hanna decides that the best defense against her father was the legendary bounty hunter, Cale Elliot. A marriage of convenience.Ha! boy did it turn out to be very inconvenient for Cale.No wedding night if she would agree to help him infiltrate the stronghold of Otis Pryor in Cromwell, Texas. The killer of his half brother, Gray Cloud and his wife.On their trek to Texas, Cale, the "Big Chief", gets to intoduce Hanna to Deputy Marshals, Pierce Hayden and Julius Tanner with some flamboyant demonstrations of his powers in saving their hides.You will love the story - the characcters and the action. It sure does not lose your attention.MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - definitely a keeper!

stirring western romance

In the 1870s New Orleans, wealthy Walter Malloy parades potential husbands past his daughter, but Hanna rejects each of them until he informs her she will wed Louis Beauchcamp, merging the two biggest shipping firms in the area. Walter hires a chaperone to guard his daughter so Hanna concludes she will never be free of her domineering father or his hand pick lackey of a spouse unless she marries someone else. She decides her choice must be a wanderer who would never be home to order her to do things. Hanna escapes and flees to Fort Smith, Arkansas.She selects half-breed Cale Elliot as her mate based on his reputation as a deputy working for Judge Parker and his work as a bounty hunter will keep him away from her. Cale accepts her plan because he believes that a wife could be the key to gaining entrance to the notorious gang who killed his brother. As her father and her "fiancé" come to collect her, the newlyweds fall in love, but both remain in deadly danger if the outlaws learn who he is.Though some readers might scratch their heads on the relative ease of Hanna's transformation from a life of opulence to that of a frontier woman, Americana fans will relish the adaptation to her new life because she is a brave admirable individual. Cale has his own demons to contend with, but knows he would die for his bride. The lead characters are deep and their adventures are typical of a Carol Finch reading riot as the BOUNTY HUNTER'S BRIDE is a stirring western romance that entertains the troops.Harriet Klausner