Frederica's Outlaw

A simple, "May I help you, Ma'am" could change a man's life forever. She came to Tucson to find her daughter. Christmas and an old outlaw are going to give her a lot more than she expected.1905-- Frederica Windsor steps off the train in Tucson, Arizona and enters a world, unlike any she'd ever known-where the Old West has yet to be tamed. She has come to find why her daughter mysteriously left Boston. She does not expect she is about to launch herself into an adventure with a man who seems to have come from the pages of one of the dime novels she's been reading. Jeremiah Taggert finds this Bostonian lady temptingly beautiful but has no intention of taking it further. He had lived a reckless, outlaw life before recognizing that world was gone forever, and those who denied it were going to be strung up, shot or in a prison cell. With his three sons settled in Tucson, he wants to be close enough to help in their lives, as a way to make up for the years he'd not been much of a father. Together Jeremiah and Frederica are about to find something they felt had passed them by. The problem will be surviving an enemy with a long reach. Leaving Tucson and heading south toward the border and the Circle O ranch, the flavor and beauty of the desert become part of their story as it takes them to a family Christmas, with danger on its way. At 29,000 words. No sexOriginally released as Sonoran Christmas and Frederica's Heart until it found its most fitting title-- Frederica's Outlaw.