The Deaconess Hires a Gunman

1888--URBANA, WYOMING TERRITORY When Arminta Foster's father dies, she steps up to fill his shoes as deaconess until a pastor can be found. But not everyone looks kindly on the beautiful young woman who trains, breeds, and sells the horses she holds so dear. Someone is out to ruin her--a neighbor, she believes--and she needs protection! When her beeves began to be slaughtered, the sheriff lets her know she's on her own--and she takes matters into her own resourceful hands. She asks a Montana outlaw to marry her... The law has caught up with handsome Montana gunman Jake Mathews--and he faces death by hanging. Being captured prevents him from seeing his mission of revenge through to the end, but there may still be a way out, if he marries this crazy young woman. He's protected by Montana law--his crimes excused--if claimed by a God-loving woman in matrimony. And it seems Miss Arminta Foster is here to claim him... All Arminta asks is that he marry her, protect her land--and her--and once things settle down, he will be free to go. How can he pass up such an offer--especially when he's facing the gallows? Easy as pie, they both believe, until their tentative friendship becomes so much more--a true love neither of them bargained for. Will that love be enough to convince Jake to give up his quest to track down and kill one last man? Can Arminta forgive him for what he may do? She gets more than she bargains for when THE DEACONESS HIRES A GUNMAN...