Desperado Dream — Karen A. Bale

A NEGLECTED BRIDE

Lovely Lisa Anderson understood her husband's restlessness only too well. The moment she saw the familiar wanderlust in his blue eyes, she told him to go ahead and leave their comfortable California ranch and to come back only when he was ready. But while her husband was away, the auburn-haired beauty found hard to deny her own passionate nature, especially when Cruz, the handsome desperado, commandeered her ranch. And when he captured her and took her to his mountain hideaway, where she was forced at gunpoint to pretend to be his bride, her protests were only half-hearted, for she found herself on the verge of surrendering to the ecstasy of her captor's virile embrace.

A PASSIONATE PLUNDERER

Though he'd been a bandit since he was a youngster, Cruz could steal but he could never kill. His gang had ordered him to slay Lisa's menfolk and take command of the ranch, but once he found the svelte senorita all by herself, the rugged loner couldn't bring himself to harm a hair on her lovely head. Instead, he charmed her, complimented her ..and then began to caress her. Rather than play the hit man for his gang of bandits, Cruz vowed that he would spirit the lovely lady away, capture her heart as well as her tantalizing body, and become her daytime protector, her midnight lover, her DESPERADO DREAM

Hero: Cruz Estacan
Heroine: Lisa Jordan Anderson