The Gunsmoke & Heartache Trilogy: A Historical Western Romance Series: Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Frontier Saga (Books 1-3) - Hardcover

by Lila Dawson (Author), Grace Lockhaven (Editor), Brogath (Editor)

She was born to be used. He was born with nothing-except a conscience he couldn't quite kill.

At thirteen, Tabitha Henry watched her father burn the one thing she loved most. By twenty-one, he'd sold her to a man she'd never met. Shipped to her uncle's frontier ranch as punishment for her defiance, she expects to survive it in silence-until she meets Tom Roland, a ranch hand with three days of stubble, a past he won't name, and an unsettling habit of saving her life.

Tom is not a good man. He knows it. He's spent thirty-two years proving it. But something about this sharp-tongued, hawk-eyed woman makes him want to be wrong about himself-and that terrifies him more than anything he's ever faced with a gun.

When Tabitha is taken anyway-forced into a marriage she never chose, to a man who controls everything including the bruises he leaves-Tom fights his way back from the dead under a new name, a new life, and one purpose.

Across three books and several years of hard living, Edward Oliver wages a quiet war to reach the woman he let walk away-while Tabitha Bel builds an empire from the wreckage of a corrupt husband's legacy, fights off the men who want her dead, and slowly, reluctantly, learns that surviving was never the same as living.

And somewhere between a frontier ranch and a hijacked train, two more people discover that love doesn't care much about what the world thinks is acceptable.