Willa and the Stranger

di Abby Whitehead (Autore)

Styli-books, 2026

For nine years Willa Dane has been a child's smile on a handbill. "Little Willa, the Colorado Markswoman" can snuff a candle at fifty feet, and Colonel Augustus Dade has a contract that says she owes him ten years of it. She is twenty-eight. Her father is dead, her debt is a lie she never had the means to check, and she has finally learned how to leave a town before the show does. She writes to a matrimonial agency in Wyoming Territory with a carbine, a bootlace of keys and one request: a door that locks. Jonas Marlow lives eleven miles from anywhere, at the foot of a rim of rock. A former Army scout, he wrote to Constance Vane that he wanted a woman who could keep a camp and wouldn't ask questions. He builds the lock himself. He sleeps against the wall so he can watch the door. Neither of them intends to say much, and for a long winter they don't. But the town is small and the handbills are old. Willa teaches a boy how to breathe before he shoots, Jonas reads tracks that shouldn't be there, and spring brings a cigar stub, a roan horse and a stranger who asks too carefully. When the Colonel arrives with a contract, a charming second shooter and a plan for the Fourth of July, Willa has to decide whether to run again or stand where people can see her. Willa and the Stranger is a slow-burn western romance with a runaway bride, a protective hero who learns to give her room, a sharpshooting match with everything at stake and a town that decides whose side it is on. It is book five of the standalone Juniper Ridge Mail-Order Brides series.

• Autore: Abby Whitehead
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Styli-books
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237247299