Texas Outlaw

Fancy Holleday a beautiful woman who has previously lived in a whorehouse and unfortunately knows the lifestyle robs a train for some U.S. minting plates to help her boyfriend, Diego, a man she feels she loves and is her only hope for marriage and finally a decent life. Federal marshal Cord Rawlins, on the train fails to stop the heist and later catches up with her and takes her into his custody. This is the focus of this story, a lawman and his prisoner traveling to Carson City, their final destination to have her placed in jail. Being in close proximity at all times makes them both feel things they don't want to feel. I understand this was Ms. deWolfe's first book... I'm very impressed. Texas Lover, the sequel is the story about Wes, Cord's younger brother.

Very good written love story and well developed characters. I'm very particular with my reading material. I found Texas Outlaw a few years ago and took a chance to buy it because my favorite authors' were not available. I'm hooked eversince, bought all her other books (Texas Lover and Texas Wildcat) but Texas Outlaw is the best of the three. Ms Dewolfe evenly went in depth with all her characters both protagonist and antagonist. Nothing is as black and white as bad man vs good guy. The most poignant is when the minor character Blisse is dying and she asked for a decent kiss from Cord, wow... both Cord and Fancy earned my admiration. I wish Ms DeWolfe wrote more than just the Rawlins Brothers series.

I thoroughly enjoyed Adrienne deWolfe's book, Texas Outlaw. After writing this, I'm ordering the other two available titles. Characters were truly likeable and believable. I am sorry Fancy had to have such a tough life before the story began. Usually, I prefer the hero of the story to "deflower" the heroine--but hey, it all worked out and made the story more realistic. Cheers to a new favorite