Gunfighter's Bride

By Dallas Schulze

Book Overview

Her wedding to a man she does not love interrupted by the father of her unborn child, Lila Adams finds her carefully constructed plans shattered by Bishop McKenzie, a seductive stranger who she fears... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440214661
• ISBN13: 9780440214663
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

DON'T FIGHT IT - SURRENDER!

Another historical that could be classified as a "classic". Lila seduces Bishop McKenzie at her brother's wedding and turns up pregnant. Her new sister-in-law writes to Bishop with the news and he returns just in time to stop Lila from marrying another man. She glanced up, her eyes meeting Bishop's. "I wish you'd arrived too late," she said, her voice more weary than angry. "If I'd already been Logan's wife, there would have been nothing you could do to change things." Bishop smiled down at her, his eyes pale blue and cold as ice. "I could have made you a widow." Passion, anger, death and danger all combine to make these two realize they are meant for each other.

Not a keeper, but a better than average read

From the back cover: The sunlight spilled into the church behind him, creating a brilliant golden path up the aisle, a path he strode like an avenging angel descending from heaven above... Lila Adams stood before the minister, a vision shrouded in a veil of white lace, a bride, about to pledge her troth to a man she didn't love. Then he, the devil in dusty clothes, marched into her wedding and burned all the bridges she's so carefully crossed. "You want to know who I am?" he asked, in a voice so as cool and hard as his eyes. "I'm the father of the child she's carrying." It was too late to turn back. Suddenly Bishop McKenzie was her husband: the tall terse Westerner who seized her at the altar with righteous wrath. She tried to deny shameful memories of abandon in his arms, even as she refused to let him leave her--or touch her--again. But she hadn't reckoned on the stranger she married, or the passions that had already betrayed her in his dangerous seductive arms... And my review: I am a fan of this author, so I grabbed this book when I saw it sitting on the used-book store shelf. And I was not disappointed. Dallas Schulze lives up to her good name, and writes an enjoyable historical romance. Her clashes between the hero and the heroine were very well written - just the kind of tension you want to find in a good romance. A few complaints: The author does not give the year that this historical novel takes place, which is a pet peeve of mine. I figure that with all of the research an author does, how hard is it to include a year? Secondly, the characters were not all that likeable. I found him a bit too "my way or the highway", and her a bit sneaky (and a liar), though they did grow and change, so that I was able to warm up to them by the end of the story. Also, this story relied much more on sex between the characters to hold them together than in many of her other books, which focus more on the romance. All in all, this was an enjoyable story, but not one that gave you the "warm fuzzies", and not one that I'd bother keeping to reread.