“You boys looking for a fair fight today?” Luke kept his finger on the trigger and the rifle pointed at them. Wade moved back another two steps, keeping his head down …When Luke Houston, a rough bounty hunter, rides into Haven Ridge, following the trail of a notorious outlaw, he wasn’t expecting to face death in this small town in Colorado.There he will meet the strong-willed and fierce Millie … Colorado.
There he will meet the strong-willed and fierce Millie Thomas, a woman whose troubled father is accused of a murder he didn’t commit.
As both fight demons from their pasts, they will find themselves coming closer to one another, and they will struggle to uncover the truth before the next murder hits the town.
When they confront the mayor of Haven Ridge, Deacon Owens, they don’t know his plan is almost completed, and they are players in someone else’s game.
And when the future of the whole town is at stake, will they be able to expose mayor Owens before he gets to them?
If you like fast-paced, rough, western romance and emotion-packed stories, you won’t be able to put down this compulsively addictive Novel by Ava Winters.
“A Bounty on Their Scarred Hearts” is a stand-alone Western Historical Romance Novel of approximately 400 pages.
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A Bounty On Their Scarred Hearts is a heartwarming story about how a bounty hunter that lost his parents to criminals at a young age is working to fight the wrong done to innocent people. And he arrives in Haven Ridge just as there is a crowd outside the saloon accusing a drunken man of killing his friend with the friend’s gun. The sheriff has just arrived with the drunken man’s daughter to take him home when they find that the town’s criminal boss and his hired men are wanting to hang the drunken man immediately to cover up the real murderer. The sheriff takes the drunk to jail for a trial and sends his daughter home. The bounty hunter starts working with the sheriff to protect the daughter and the drunken father from the criminal boss and his hired men till the judge can arrive. That is when a bond forms between the bounty hunter and the daughter but before they can find love the shoot out at Haven Ridge jail occurs and the fate of the sheriff, bounty hunter deputy, daughter and father are inside fighting for their lives and for justice. A very good western romance full of suspense, deceit, fear and danger.
A great suspenseful western! Life was tough then but having a controlling dangerous mayor makes it worse. Deacon and his men are bullies that need someone to stop their control. Luke Houston arrives in town and ends up helping to destroy the lies. A hard boook to put down!
The title is a little misleading. I’m not sure I would consider Millie has a scarred heart. I enjoyed the story and I really liked Luke and Harvey. Millie was all over the place. One time she was angry and the next she was hurt. This book is a good read with some parts being predictable but others were not.
I received a free copy of this book and I am voluntarily leaving my honest review.
A Bounty on Their Scarred Hearts by Ava Winters is a Western Historical novel. Sherriff Roach was on his way to collect Millie Thomas to come into town and corral her father, Isaac, who was drunk again. She was about the only one who could handle him. By the time her got her back to the saloon, a group of men was surrounding Isaac outside the front door watching someone beat him. Inside there was a dead man, one whom Isaac had supposedly shot. The sheriff managed to get everyone relatively calm and drug Isaac to jail, but her was nervous that Deacon Owen’s men were going to cause trouble, insisting that Isaac should be hung immediately, no reason to wait for the circuit judge to pass sentence. It was about this time that bounty hunter, Luke Houston, arrived in town, looking for a few days rest. He heard the story of the shooting in the saloon and something didn’t ring true, especially the next day when a $1,000 bounty had been posted. Luke wasn’t in it totally for the money, he was in it to get rid of criminals, something people found difficult to believe.
For a first attempt, Winters has written a good book. Not only does it have a decent plot, but someone has proofread it. It is surprisingly free of errors, the first thing that makes a book a good read. The folks in this book are very human. They have real emotions and real reactions. Isaac’s daughter, Millie, is strong and stubborn, a necessity to survive the rough early West. The sheriff has a heart ad well as a brain…very exciting. The bad guys are stereotypically bad and expect to get away with the evil deeds. All-in-all, a good read. I recommend it.
I received a free ARC of this book. All opinions expressed herein are my own.
I enjoyed this story of the old west with a bad guy who wants to control the town, a murder, a bounty hunter, & Love. Well developed story with suspense. Would read more by this author.