Captive Angel [Mass Market Paperback]

Good Samaritan Wallace Daltry rescues Angel Devlin, the wild child of the town whore, from a Texas lynch mob after she kills her would-be rapist. Angel is grateful to Daltry and puzzled when he offers her his entire ranch. Wary of such generosity but eager for a place of her own, she agrees to accompany him. On the way, Daltry is murdered in his sleep, and Angel takes shelter at the abandoned ranch. When Jack Daltry arrives, looking for his father, he doesn't believe Angel's weird tale nor her claim on his legacy. The two are quickly at each other's throats, but they agree to work together to find out who ransacked the ranch and killed Jack's father. Jack's gritty facade gives way to a kind interior, and underneath all the shouting, Jack and Angel inevitably begin to care for each otherAbut they refuse to admit their love. When Jack finds out that his outlaw brother, Seth, is behind everything, he sets out after him, leaving Angel alone to defend the ranch. Porter (Seasons of Glory) keeps readers on the edge of their seats with this action-packed, fast-paced western romance.
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The day her mother dies, Angel kills a man in self-defense. And a lynch mob strings her up. Then Wallace Daltry steps forward to save her life. A secret had brought the elderly rancher to Red River Station, Texas, to find Angel and offer her something the outcast daughter of a prostitute in a saloon has never had--a home. Upon his death, Circle D ranch becomes hers. When his son rides into town to mend fences with his father, he finds her instead. Will his anger cloud his ability to see what his father already has?.