The Marshal's Justice

The Marshal's Justice
Delores Fossen

A Texas lawman will move heaven and earth to keep his former lover and their infant daughter safeA shoot-out on the banks of Appaloosa Creek is the last place Marshal Chase Crockett expects to find his ex-lover. Former criminal informant April Landis is supposed to be in WITSEC, awaiting the birth of their child.But the desperate woman caught in the crossfire isn’t pregnant.Telling Chase he was a father–two months early–wasn’t an option with murderous thugs targeting April and their infant daughter. Despite the violence that divides them, her only prayer is to trust the Texas lawman sworn to protect his family. Until desire ambushes them again, leaving April and Chase at the mercy of a past with no promise of a future.

Chase paused, trying to brace himself for how she was going to react to the next thing he had to tell her.

“There was blood on the floor.”

That caused her breath to shudder, and she staggered back. Maybe would have fallen if Chase hadn’t caught her. He hooked his arm around her waist, putting them body to body again. Also giving him feelings he didn’t want to have.

Lust.

Not an especially good time for it, but it always seemed to happen with April. Chase cursed it and wished there was some way in hell he could make himself immune to her.

The Marshal’s

Justice

Delores Fossen

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

DELORES FOSSEN, a USA TODAY bestselling author, has sold over fifty novels with millions of copies of her books in print worldwide. She’s received a Booksellers’ Best Award and an RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Award. She was also a finalist for a prestigious RITA® Award. You can contact the author through her web page at www.deloresfossen.com (http://www.deloresfossen.com).

Contents

Cover (#u301c5510-6319-51b5-864a-3a9ad3f0cb8e)

Introduction (#ubbba0b75-d710-5bb7-9ace-20d41b362133)

Title Page (#u49ade07a-0e4c-5cff-beae-4c1b44334221)

About the Author (#u6dd6ef2d-fa80-5d97-8a70-6845c74e72eb)

Chapter One (#u3e7b29f6-9f42-51bb-889b-c4f5cb0e53db)

Chapter Two (#u816dc53c-c6f3-501a-a406-41903ac0f46f)

Chapter Three (#u3930adec-0c61-584e-b83c-202649fc9574)

Chapter Four (#u2203f7c3-e15a-5088-b4d2-c84e9d4e94c0)

Chapter Five (#u3036d6b4-6a0d-5165-9fcb-d3733c211e50)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Extract (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter One (#ulink_cd2405d9-8fc0-5bfa-8944-682572c13afe)

The shot cracked through the air. Mercy. That was definitely not what Marshal Chase Crockett wanted to hear.

Or see.

The bullet slammed into the woman he’d just spotted. Her gaze connected with Chase’s a split second before she crumpled to the ground.

If she wasn’t dead, she soon would be. Chase was sure of it.

He cursed when he couldn’t go out in the clearing where she’d fallen and pull her out of the path of more gunfire. Cursed, too, that he hadn’t been able to stop that bullet from hitting her in the first place.

How the devil had this happened?

He didn’t have time to try to figure that out because the next bullet came right at him, and Chase had no choice but to dive behind a pile of rocks. Maybe he’d get a chance soon to return fire and make the shooter pay for what he had just done.

And what he’d done was shoot the criminal informant, Deanne McKinley, on the banks of Appaloosa Creek. A woman who had phoned Chase earlier and begged him to help her. If he’d just gotten her call a few minutes sooner, maybe he could have arrived in time to stop this.

Whatever this was.

Clearly, someone wanted Deanne dead, and now whoever had attacked her was shooting at Chase, too.