Leigh Greenwood | Giveaway and Excerpt for FOREVER AND ALWAYS

About FOREVER AND ALWAYS

HE KNOWS SHE CAN NEVER BE HIS...

Logan Holstock, oldest of three brothers orphaned on the Santa Fe Trail, has always been content knowing his brothers were alive and happy somewhere in the vast and brutal West-until he learns he may be dying. Certain he has little time left, Logan sets out to find them and end his days near a family he's never known...and stumbles across a strong yet vulnerable widow who makes him yearn for what can never be his.

Logan knows he shouldn't love Sibyl Spencer-he couldn't bear leaving her a widow all over again. But as he finds himself drawn deeper into the lives of this small Western town, he can't escape the longing to find peace in her arms. When he discovers that his death sentence is anything but, Logan swears he will do whatever it takes to prove himself to the woman he loves...and show he believes their love is worth fighting for.

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Sibyl gasped as one robber pointed his gun at Horace, and the other turned back on Norman. The sound of pistol shots was deafening. She expect to see Horace fall, mortally wounded. Instead, the robber crumpled into a heap. A second explosion, following so close on the first that it sounded like an echo, sent the robber who’d shot Norman to the ground. In the confusion, Cassie managed to break away from her captor. A third gunshot sent him into the next world after his fellow thieves. The remaining robber grabbed Sibyl to use as a shield.

Everything had happened so fast, it took a moment for Sibyl to realize three robbers were dead, and that a stranger with a gun in his hand was standing just inside the bank door. Cassie and Horace were staring at him with riveted gazes, their eyes wide from shock.

No one had seen or heard the man enter the bank. He was tall and thin, his face so bloated his eyes seemed to stare at them out of deep wells. Sibyl was certain she’d never seen him before. It would have been impossible to forget such a face. At the moment, however, she didn’t have time to wonder who he might be. She was standing between two guns, one held by the stranger and one by the outlaw. She could be the next one to die.

“Let her go,” the stranger said. “You can have the cash.”

“I’m not a fool. If I let her go, you’ll shoot me.”

“I’ll shoot you if you don’t.”

“Don’t do anything foolish,” the man growled at Sibyl.

Sibyl could tell by his shaking voice that he was as stunned by the unexpected turn of events as she was. “You’d better take your own advice,” she responded. “If you shoot me, you will die for sure.”

“We’re getting out of here together. There’s a back door.”

Sibyl wasn’t willing to trust her safety to this man. As soon as he tried to pull her back toward the rear door, she went limp. The bank echoed with the sound of a shot, and the robber and Sibyl tumbled to the floor. It seemed the stranger was at her side the moment she hit the floor.

“Are you okay?”

Sibyl was so horrified by what she’d just witnessed—and the blood spatters covering most of her upper body—she couldn’t get a word out, but she did manage to sit up.

Cassie wasn’t similarly handicapped. “I’m sure glad you got here when you did,” she said to the stranger. “That son of a bitch who grabbed me smelled bad.” She looked around at the bodies and the blood. “You made a real mess. I hope nobody’s expecting me to clean it up.”

Sibyl didn’t know whether to laugh or take the easy way out and faint. Instead, she took the hand the stranger offered.

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About Leigh Greenwood

Leigh Greenwood is the author of both the popular Seven Brides series and The Cowboys series. The proud parent of three grown children, Leigh lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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