Captive Angel

The day her mother died, Angel Devlin killed a man in self-defense. And a lynch mob put a noose around her neck. Then Wallace Daltry stepped 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 an "upstairs girl" in a saloon never had. A home. Jack Daltry came back to his father's ranch to mend fences between them. Instead, he finds his father dead, and a feisty, beautiful woman claiming his dad gave her the circle D ranch. Now a standoff begins between a man eaten up with anger and a defiant beauty with emotions locked behind a wall of self-control. But when a ruthless killer comes after them both, Jack finds a woman of passion and courage beside him...and a chance for redemption if he can show Angel the transforming power of love, in Cheryl Anne Porter's Captive Angel . The day her mother died, Angel Devlin killed a man in self-defense. And a lynch mob put a noose around her neck. Then Wallace Daltry stepped 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 an "upstairs girl" in a saloon never had. A home. Jack Daltry came back to his father's ranch to mend fences between them. Instead, he finds his father dead, a a feisty, beautiful woman claiming his dad gave her the circle D ranch. Now a standoff begins between a man eaten up with anger and a defiant beauty with emotions locked behind a wall of self-control. But when a ruthless killer comes after them both, Jack finds a woman of passion and courage beside him ... and a chance for redemption if he can show Angel the transforming power of love 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? Threatened with lynching after killing a drunk in self-defense, Angel Devlin, the orphaned daughter of a prostitute, is rescued by elderly rancher Wallace Daltry, but his death leads to a confrontation with Daltry's handsome son, Jack, and a ruthless killer