Rocky Mountain Marshals

Ambush of the Heart – Coming next month!

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Ambush of the Heart

Is releasing on February 3

And I’ve got my author’s copies so today I’ll draw a winner for one of them from anyone who leaves a comment.

Ambush of the Heart is Book #1 in the Rocky Mountain Marshals Series

I’ve been wanting to do US Marshals for a while now.

I’ve got an author friend, Sharee Stover, who writes US Marshals, but contemporary and when we’d talk, I realized how LITTLE I knew about what exactly a US Marshal does.

That led to research, including a trip to the US Marshals Museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas…a place mentioned in True Grit. Yep, Rooster Cogburn was the only US Marshal I could think of.

I could do a lot worse than base my western romances on JOHN WAYNE.’

Mary Connealy

I did have three marshals as back up characters in the book Marshaling Her Heart. Even when I was writing that book, I knew those three marshals needed their own story. These were tough, solitary men…now how do I get them to open their hearts to love?

I, of course, had to find three women who were strong enough and soft enough to get past their hearts.

It was a fun challenge and we start with the leader of this band of marshals, Owen Riley. He’s transporting a prisoner…completely routine job. Five marshals, one prisoner. Until a woman and her brother ask if they can join their party. And why not? They are expecting no trouble.

Then there’s trouble. And they are driven into the front range of the Rocky Mountains, onto unknown trails, running, fighting, running again, deeper and deeper into a wilderness that they do NOT know how to get out of. Tough men that they are, they know how to survive. But what they want is to get this man, an escaped prisoner, back in jail.

It was a little hard to find time for love and comedy, but I managed it.

Leave a comment about a time you were in the mountains. I’ve had very few mountain experiences but I remember being struck by riding down a perfectly paved, 4-lane highway and thinking, what was it like when there was no road? How lost could I get?

I hope you enjoy a book that asks the question…just how lost can someone get in those massive, unknown mountains.

Ambush of the Heart

When bandits strike in the wilderness, can love and faith overcome the shadows of danger?

As Owen Riley and his fellow Marshals escort Delaney Bridger, her brother, and an escaped prisoner to Fort Russell, a gang of outlaws ambushes them, bringing death and devastation to their party. With their lives on the line and the outlaws in pursuit, Owen directs the rest of his battered group to seek hiding at a remote ranch. After the attack leaves her brother Boone seriously injured, Delaney helps Owen, nursing Boone and a wounded Marshal back to health while danger looms ever closer. Despite the threat at their heels, romance sparks between Owen and Delaney as they fight for survival on their perilous trek to the fort. Can they overcome the obstacles and find a future together? Mary Connealy presents a riveting historical Frontier series starter of adventure, love, and high jinks in the rugged wilderness of 1870s Colorado. This Western romance features a determined Marshal, a courageous woman, forced proximity romance, and a risky journey of survival.