Welcome to the Official Blog Tour for USA Today Bestselling Author Michelle McLean's Hitched to the Gunslinger, the first title in the Gunslinger series! Today, on our tour stop, we have an exclusive excerpt to share and a teaser! So... Be sure to check it out and grab your copy now!
Genre:
Adult
Historical Romance
Series:
Gunslinger, #1
Publish Date:
August 24, 2021
Publisher:
Synopsis:
Gray “Quick Shot” Woodson is the fastest gun west of the Mississippi. Unfortunately, he’s ready to hang up his hat. Sure, being notorious has its perks. But the nomadic lifestyle—and people always tryin’ to kill you—gets old real fast.
Now he just wants to find a place to retire so he can spend his days the way the good Lord intended. Staring at the sunset. And napping.
When his stubborn horse drags him into a hole-in-the-wall town called Desolation, something about the place calls to Gray, and he figures he might actually have a shot at a sleepy retirement.
His optimism lasts about a minute and a half.
Soon he finds himself embroiled in a town vendetta and married to a woman named Mercy. Who, judging by her aggravating personality, doesn’t know the meaning of her own name. In fact, she’s downright impossible.
But dang it if his wife isn’t irresistible. If only she’d stop trying to steal his guns to go after the bad guys herself.
There goes his peace and quiet...
*Excerpt*
“I know most people don’t have a very high opinion of me,” he said, his voice gruff, a pain behind it that made her want to wrap her arms around him. “But I’m a man of my word. I said I’d help you. Josiah is still out there. So, I’m not done yet. And I said if it came down to it, I’d marry you for real. Well, it looks like it’s come down to it.”
“And if it all goes horribly wrong and we loathe the sight of each other within a month?”
He shrugged. “Then I hop on that lazy horse of mine, and we ride out of here. You stay a respectable married woman with the freedom to do whatever the hell she wants without everyone in town naggin’ her to get a husband.”
“And if I ever want to remarry?”
He shrugged again. “Tell people I died. It’ll probably be the truth.”
Mercy’s stomach sank at the thought of anything happening to Gray, but she didn’t have time to analyze the feeling to death just yet. First, she needed to figure out if she was getting married or not. She kept coming up with another dozen reasons why this was a bad idea. Though, getting out of it would cause a stir she really didn’t want to deal with. Not that that was a reason to get married.
“The only real question is,” Gray said, “do you agree to this?”
“Me?”
“Yes. You. If you don’t want this, it doesn’t happen. People will talk, but people will always talk. I don’t care about them. You, however, are more than capable of killin’ me in my sleep.”
She gasped. “I would never.”
He chuckled. “Don’t be so sure. We don’t know each other all that well yet, and I have no doubt that what you do know of me vexes you to no end.”
“That’s a fair point.”
He gave her that crooked grin she couldn’t help but return. Vexing, yes. But he could be kind of adorable when he wanted to be.
“All I’m sayin’ is marriage lasts a long time even when you go into it willing,” he said. “So. If you object, we tell them to mind their own business and go about ours as planned. If you don’t object…” He shrugged. “Then I guess we go out there and get hitched.”
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**About the Author**
USA Today bestselling author Michelle McLean is a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl who is addicted to chocolate and Goldfish crackers and spent most of her formative years with her nose in a book. She has degrees in history and English and is thrilled that she sort of gets to use them. Her novel Truly, Madly, Sweetly, written as Kira Archer, was adapted as a Hallmark Original movie in 2018.
When Michelle’s not working, reading, or chasing her kids around, she can usually be found baking, diamond painting, or trying to find free wall space upon which to hang her diamond paintings. She resides in PA with her husband and two teens, the world’s most spoiled dog, and a cat who absolutely rules the house.
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