Runaway

Overview: After working as a department manager for Famous-Barr, and briefly as a clerk at a bookstore, Bobbi Smith gave up on career security and began writing. She sold her first book to Zebra in 1982. Since then, Bobbi has written over 40 books and several short stories. To date, there are more than five million of her novels in print. She has been awarded the prestigious Romantic Times Storyteller of the Year Award and two Career Achievement Awards. Her books have appeared on numerous bestseller lists. When she's not working on her novels, she is frequently a guest speaker for writer's groups. Bobbi is mother of two sons and resides in St. Charles, Missouri with her husband and three dogs. "Destiny Sterling had to get away from St. Louis. Otherwise she'd never escape her stepfather's hot hands ... or his hideous plans for her. Her only hope was to pose as a mail-order bride traveling to Texas to marry a rancher. Dan Cooper was as low-down mean as they came. He took pride in his gang's rough reputation ... and the string of successful robberies they'd pulled off. His ace in the hole was a remote Texas ranch where he planned to lie low if things got too hot. Texas Ranger Lane Madison knew the Cooper gang would show up at the Circle D Ranch sooner or later. All he had to do was play the part of its new owner ... and wait. What he didn't count on was having to marry a vulnerable young beauty to keep up the role, or the inescapable attraction that made any secret between them impossible."--Page 4 of cover