Rosanne Bittner | The Sweeping Family Saga of The Outlaw Hearts Trilogy

Dear Readers – I want to tell you about a trilogy I am writing that will open your hearts to the beauty of long-lasting true love and to the joy of reading the bigger, family saga type story. My Outlaw Hearts trilogy begins with OUTLAW HEARTS (June 2015) followed by DO NOT FORSAKE ME (July 2015) and will end with LOVE’S SWEET REVENGE in September 2016. I feel there are not nearly enough books like mine on the market today, stories that cover 10 to 40 years and that encompass the settling of a Nation, filled with real American history and following one family that lives through the astounding growth of the greatest nation on earth.

The Outlaw Hearts trilogy follows a man from the days of pure lawlessness into the era of a more settled West that embraces law and order. It is written in my favorite genre of a sweeping family saga that follows one couple from their younger years through children and even grandchildren, and how the settling of the American West and its phenomenally rapid growth affects the lives of people who lived through it all. Above all, the stories are a family saga filled with tremendously powerful love, both between the hero and heroine but also the love of a father for his son and a mother for her husband and children – and how that love is balanced and fortified by life’s trials and challenges.

Jake Harkner starts out as a ruthless wanted man with a very tragic past that has molded him into a man who barely knows the meaning of love. He meets a woman through chance of fate (she shoots him!) who ends up being the person who changes his life (and his heart) and teaches Jake about true love and teaches him to love himself and to forgive himself for the one sin that haunts him constantly – the fact that he killed his own father. It was for good reason and he could hardly help it at the time, but it is still an ugly memory he must deal with. Jake’s childhood was something most children would never even live through, and as a very young boy he witnessed his father murder his mother and little brother.

In OUTLAW HEARTS Jake and Randy are constantly on the run, but love holds them together through some Wild West action and adventure and the dangers of a wanted man who is hunted not just by the law but by the very men he used to ride with. I wrote the book 22 years ago and always wanted to write a sequel. When Sourcebooks asked for one and offered to reissue OUTLAW HEARTS, I was thrilled! DO NOT FORSAKE ME poured right out of me – 600 manuscript pages – in about 4 months! I finished before I even received my contract! For all these years I have been in love with Jake Harkner and wanted to continue his story of love, forgiveness and redemption. By the time I finished DO NOT FORSAKE ME I knew a trilogy was in the making. I couldn’t leave these beloved characters because I’d been “living” with them for 26 years (story-wise). I wanted to follow them to Colorado, where they are headed at the end of Book #2. I am now about 250 pages into LOVE’S SWEET REVENGE, another heart- wrenching, realistic western that teaches about love, forgiveness, redemption, and what it’s like to live through the dramatic changes going on around your characters.

I promise all of you that OUTLAW HEARTS and DO NOT FORSAKE ME will take you on a journey you will not soon forget, and one that will leave you totally in love with Jake Harkner and anxious to read LOVE’S SWEET REVENGE! For more on these books visit my web site at www.rosannebittner.com or my blog. And you can always e-mail me at [email protected]. Happy reading!

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About Rosanne Bittner

USA Today bestseller and award-winning novelist Rosanne Bittner is known as the “Queen of Western Historical Romance” for her thrilling love stories and historical authenticity. Her epic romances span the West—and are often based on Rosanne’s personal visits to each setting. She lives in Coloma, Michigan, with her husband and two sons.

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About OUTLAW HEARTS

United by chance, bound by fate, consumed by passion.

Miranda Hayes has lost everything—her family, her husband, her home. Orphaned and then widowed, desperate to find a safe haven, she sets out to cross a savage land alone… until chance brings her face- to-face with notorious gunslinger Jake Harkner.

Hunted by the law and haunted by a brutal past, Jake has spent a lifetime fighting for everything he has. He’s never known a moment’s kindness…until fate brings him to the one woman willing to reach past his harsh exterior to the man inside. He would die for her. He would kill for her. He will do whatever it takes to keep her his.

Spanning the dazzling West with its blazing deserts and booming gold towns, Jake and Miranda must struggle to endure every hardship that threatens to tear them apart. But the love of an outlaw comes with a price…and even their passion may not burn bright enough to conquer the coming darkness.