Rowdy Rhodes meeting up with Sam O'Ballivan in Haven Arizona
is destined to change his life. Sam makes him a marshal to
help him ferret out the evil there in Haven. Next time Rowdy
hears from Sam he is asked to head to Stone Creek and become
the marshal there and help solve the problem of a rash of
violent train robberies. Well that was like asking a kid to
watch the cookie jar. It seems Rowdy Rhodes is just an alias
for a train robber whose photos adorn wanted posters along
with those of his brothers and his father. But he isn't that
man any longer. He is trying to start a new life -- a new
beginning and perhaps the place to get that new beginning is
in Stone Creek. But it's hard to look ahead while constantly
looking over your shoulder for fear of being discovered and
Rowdy is just waiting for Sam to realize who he really is.
In Stone Creek he meets the lovely Lark Morgan who has
settled there to become the school teacher. But the more he
gets to know Lark the more certain he is that she too is
running for her life. Her fear is almost palpable. The
development of a relationship is beyond their control such
is the connection and passion. They each fear having their
past catch up with them. Both know they are living on
borrowed time. Theirs is surely a doomed love but even so,
how can they deny themselves what ever time they have
together. Whereas the advent of train travel has opened up
new roads of opportunity for so many, for Lark and Rowdy it
brings their pasts ever more close to their present. The
world is getting smaller and danger is fast approaching.
Everyday they spend in Stone Creek brings peril closer to
them and to the people they have grown to love. Time is
running out.
Linda Lael Miller has once again brought her readers to a
place so real that it has you anxiously waiting for the next
shoe to drop. The pace of this story is incredible. So many
characters play a major role in the story of Lark and Rowdy
you can only hope this isn't the last we hear of them.
Surely Miller is setting us up for a tale involving Lydia
and Gideon. Train travel brought great prosperity and opened
trade routes making the unimaginable possible. It made
running away easier but hiding more difficult. Many people
in A WANTED MAN were looking for peace and solace in a new
place. Miller has us wishing for a happy ending even though
the outcome is destined to be bleak.
The past tends to catch up with folks in Stone Creek,
Arizona. So schoolmarm Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy
Rhodes are determined to hide their secrets—and deny their
instant attraction. That should be easy, since each
suspects the other of living a lie.…
But Rowdy and Lark share one truth: both face real
dangers. Like the gang of train robbers heading their way,
men Ranger Sam O'Ballivan expects Rowdy to nab. And as
past and current troubles collide, Rowdy and Lark must
surrender their pride to the greatest power of all—undying
love.
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