A Texan's Honor
Book #2 In the Heart of a Hero Series
by Shelley Shepard Gray
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A Texan's Honor
1
Kansas
January, 1874
The barrel of a six-shooter was cold against Jamie’s temple. As the iron pressed on her skin, a chill raced through her body.
She should’ve kept her wool cloak on.
She thought it certainly was amazing how in the most dire circumstances, a body resorted to concentrating on the most basic of things. The gunman pressed the barrel harder against her with a shaky hand. Jamie winced and her fear crept up a notch. Closing her eyes, she waited for the inevitable. Tried her best to recite the Lord’s Prayer. Surely, that’s what God would want her to think about during her last moments on earth.
“Put that gun down, Kent,” one of the men ordered from the other side of the train car. “There’s no need to start firing on defenseless women.”
Her captor wasn’t in the mood for advice. “Shut up, McMillan. The boss might think you’re somethin’ special, but we both know you ain’t none better than the rest of us.” Reaching out with his free hand—the one not pressing the firearm to her temple—he took hold of Jamie’s arm. Wrapped five thick leather- gloved fingers around her elbow and tugged.
Jamie bit her lip so she wouldn’t cry out.
Kent noticed and grinned.
Across the aisle on the floor, one of the six men trussed like turkeys looked away.
“I’m just saying we’ve got no cause to start killing hostages,” McMillan said as he stepped closer. His tan duster glided over the planes of his body, accentuating his chest and the pure white of his cotton shirt.
“I ain’t killed no one today. Not yet, leastways.”
“Don’t start now. You heard what Boss said,” McMillan said, stepping close enough for Jamie to see faint lines of exhaustion around his eyes.
Jamie found it almost impossible to look away. The man—McMillan—spoke so quietly. So calmly. Like he was speaking of the bitter cold temperatures outside. Or the snow covering the ground. In fact, he looked almost bored, holding his Colt in his right hand and scanning the rest of them with little curiosity.
Just like none of them counted.
Jamie blinked back tears as she tried to stay as still as possible. But it was hard, because the train was still moving.
As panic,grief, and a thousand other emotions engulfed her, Jamie wondered why the Lord had placed her on this train with a band of outlaws. Both her parents had succumbed to influenza just two months ago. After selling everything she owned, she boarded the train in Denver and planned to continue traveling east on the Kansas Pacific toward Kansas City. Her future? To go live with her maiden aunts until she and Randall—her aunts’ favorite neighbor and her very recent correspondent—decided matrimony was in their future.
However, from the time she’d boarded, the journey had been difficult. She had little extra money, so she was in the second-class coach along with everyone else who couldn’t afford to travel more privately in first class. No one had needed to tell her that traveling in third class was not an option.
Copyright © 2011 Abingdon Press
A Texan's Honor
Shelley Gray’s Heart of a Hero series is as popular with Club members as her Amish tales! Book Two, A Texan’s Honor, is set in 1874, and finds Will McMillan, a former soldier who fought next to his hero, Clayton Proffitt, now waging war of another kind. He’s joined the notorious Walton Gang terrorizing the West. But Will is working undercover for the U.S. Marshals, something Jamilyn Ellis knows nothing about when her train is held up and she is taken hostage.
Will would never allow any woman to come to harm, particularly lovely Jamie. But the cost of protecting her could be high if his identity is revealed. That’s why he keeps Jamie in the dark when they make their escape, risking everything for a woman who may never love him back….
Hardcover : 320 pages
Publisher: Abingdon Press ( March 01, 2012 )
Item #: 13-510947
ISBN: 9781617936845
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.76inches
Product Weight: 13.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
A Down to earth book 
May 04, 2012
Texan's Honor is a book that holds your attention all the way through to the end. I barely could put it down. I would recommend it.
Reviewer: Janice W
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