Meet Sunny Harlowe, the bounty hunter heroine of My Only Desire

A beautiful bounty hunter on a mission A handsome scoundrel on the run. When two strong wills and two empty hearts collide, there is bound to be fire and smoldering passion that will not let it die.

My Only Desire is inspired by all the women who after experiencing great personal loss shift their energy and emotion into protecting those at risk and those whose lives were similarly touched by tragedy.

My Only Desire by Andrea ParnellGreat adversity can bring great change in a person.  In My OnlyDesire I explored this premise after noting that many organizations such as MADD, were formed by individuals following devastating personal loss.  I wondered if it could have been much the same in the old west, if a woman who experienced heart-breaking tragedy might transform into an advocate for justice.  A beautiful bounty hunter stepped up.

My Only Desire,  features the gun-toting, no-nonsense Sunny Harlowe.  Like Delilah in Delilah’s Flame and Teddy in Devil Moon, she’s a western woman to contend with.  You won’t find Sunny corseted or coiffed to perfection or consumed with the latest fashion or longing for a beau.  You would do a double take to believe your eyes and by then it would be too late; the shrewdest bounty hunter in Colorado would have you in handcuffs.

Sunny Harlowe is a woman on a mission doing a job she was never meant to hold.  Sunshine, supper on the table, a baby in the cradle, these were her dreams.  All changed to dust in 1873 Colorado, when this darling of the mining camps,  a demure young woman and loving wife, experiences an horrific event.  Her life and hopes for the future shattered, she packs away her calico and lace, straps on six-shooters  and embraces a stunningly different future as a bounty hunter committed to bringing to justice men like those who cost her what she held most dear.

A danger for those committed to a single purpose is that they can lose all of who and what they were before.  All the sweetness, all the dreams young Sunny Harlowe had are fading away until she captures Price Ramsey, a man with a mission of his own and all the charm and persuasion needed to remind Sunny she is a woman with a woman’s heart.

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Excerpt from My Only Desire

My Only Desire

A Guns & Garters Western Historical Romance

A man in chains.

A  woman in charge.

Sunny Harlowe is a bounty hunter who always gets her man. But this time she’s captured trouble in Price Ramsey, a scoundrel who always gets his woman.

My Only Desire by Andrea Parnell“Sunny. Do you know what I thought the first time I saw you?”

“Let me guess.” With difficulty, she broke her gaze away from his and swung off the pinto.  “You thought, ‘There’s a woman I haven’t had.’”

Dammit. Nothing was easy with this woman. But he fortified himself for the new assault. “No,” he said tenderly. “I thought, ‘There’s the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen.’ ”

“Hah!” She tossed the stirrup up on the seat of the saddle and unbuckled the girth.

“And the next time,” he continued. “I saw you, and I forgot I was supposed to be shooting at the target Delos tossed for me.”

“You hit it.”

“Barely,” he said. “I tried to find you afterwards.”

Pretending indifference, she unshackled the chains on Price’s handcuffs so he could dismount. “I didn’t want you to find me,” she said.

“No,” he ground out. “But you wanted me, Sunny. I’m not wrong about that. I’m not wrong about what I saw in your eyes before you disappeared.”

“Over there.” She pointed at a thick part of the grove. “Go.”

He obeyed, docile as a lamb while she hooked his shackles around still another tree.

“Sunny?”

“What?”

“Kiss me,” he said softly.

“You’re crazy,” she hissed.

“I know.” His eyes flashed, and his low, husky voice sent a shiver up her spine. “I am. Look at me. I can’t move more than a foot. I can’t hurt you. I can’t do anything to you that wouldn’t leave me in a worse predicament than this. Kiss me. Please. It’s not too much to ask.”

“Yes, it is…”

She said it too slowly, and he knew she was thinking about it. And she was standing so close. A tilt of his head was enough. His lips touched hers, light as a breeze. He didn’t raise his hands. He didn’t want to remind her of his chains.

Sunny moaned softly as his mouth opened and closed hungrily on her lips, tender yet demanding.  The shock, the satisfaction caught her.  She trembled, felt a whirlwind rise and twist within her, felt the spiraling power of it numb her mind and inflame her senses.  Her knees shook and her eyelids slid down as the heart of the storm swept deep in her abdomen then spun up and out, higher and higher.  And then he stepped away…

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