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Author: Patricia Preston | Website
Patricia Preston’s love for storytelling started when she wrote her first short story in the sixth grade. Since then, she has had several stories published and has won the William Faulkner Award for Short Fiction and Harlequin’s World’s Best Romances novella contest. When she is not working on a story or at her job in the medical field, she is catching up on her reading, improving her photography skills, looking for clearance sales or watching movies. Don’t ask her how many times she has seen The Lord of the Rings. You can visit her at her website www.patricia-preston.com.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Almost an Outlaw
Rancher Austin Cade rides into Liberty looking for his old comrades, the James-Younger gang. He needs their help tracking down the horse thief who's stolen his prized mare. In town, the former gunfighter is reunited with Darcy, the first girl he ever kissed—and never forgot.
Young widow Darcy Branson owns a shop full of fashionable ladies' attire, but continues to wear mourning black so she won't forget her role in her husband's death. Austin stirs a passion inside her that has long been dormant, but can Darcy learn to believe in Austin—and love—enough to let go of her tragic past?
Time is rapidly running out... As a cousin to Jesse James, Darcy has attracted unwanted attention, thanks to her rumored association with the gang. Soon Austin and Darcy are faced with confronting not only their growing desire, but danger in the form of a deadly bounty hunter...
22,500 words
Reviewer: AmyC
Review: May 19, 2011
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Western
Almost an Outlaw has everything you could want in a good historical Western. I loved the inclusion of some notorious bad boys. Austin is a hot hero who will make the reader beg for more, and Darcy was a feisty interesting character with her familial connections to the famous Jesse James.
The story is a short read at around 22,000 words and could have been expanded more. In fact I wanted it to be a bit longer