Tall in the Saddle

By Karin Kallmaker, Barbara Johnson, Therese Szymanski, et al.

Book Overview

A daring woman bandit terrorizes America's southwest...

The time is the gold rush days in New Mexico Territory. Embittered Margarita Sanchez has sworn to avenge the racist lynching of her Anglo husband and the loss of the ranch they had built together.

Accompanied by three male companions, she ruthlessly extracts her revenge in a series of stagecoach robberies. Then a gang member is critically wounded during a bank holdup, and Margarita is forced to take Julia Blake hostage, bringing her back to the gang's camp.

Once more Margarita's life undergoes drastic changes. Because amid a growing emotional attachment to Julia Blake, she has discovered the unthinkable: a sexual attraction to another woman.

Penny Hayes gives us another fascinating tale filled with authentic and colorful detail of mining towns and gold dust fever and every day western life--and of how women with independent minds lived in the old west.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594931062
• ISBN13: 9781594931062
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Bella Books
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

This is really a mixed review and should probably be a 3.5

I rate the novellas from 3 to 4.5 individually. Therese Szymanski doesn't come up to her usual standard; I found myself flipping pages and skimming--she gets a 3. Karin Kallmaker managed to break my heart with her story Cowboys and Kisses about a frontier whore. She gets a 4.5. Barbara Johnson's story of a couple of women in a tight spot entertains in spite of the fact that it almost had a tragic ending.(4) I wished that Julia Watts had been able to add just a few pages to her story of the grade B western actresses in love; it was fun to read(4). The book was worth the money.