Just This Once

The Story

As she picked the stranger's pocket at a public hanging, Josie Cooper was swept into the steely arms of her intended victim, an angry gunslinger with a face so handsome it made her ache.  Josie escaped.  But Ethan Savage caught her again and gave her a choice: marriage or jail.  It was strictly business: six months in England, then she was free--and rich.  She couldn't say no.  And she couldn't tell him the truth: she was already married--to a brutal outlaw who would track her to the ends of the earth... Ethan thought he'd left his aristocratic past behind--until his family hunted him down, forcing him to return to England and claim an inheritance and a title he didn't want.  All he needed was a bride, and Josie Cooper had to say yes. Now he had to turn the sometime dance-hall girl into a countess.  Love had nothing to do with it--until he fell head over heels for the newly minted countess who took London by storm...