The Outlaw Takes a Bride
Written by Susan Page Davis
Narrated by Aimee Lilly
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Johnny Paynter flees Denver to escape being hanged for a murder he didn’t commit. At his brother’s ranch in Texas, where he thought he could take refuge, he finds his brother, Mark—dead. Taking advantage of his strong resemblance to his brother, Johnny assumes Mark’s identity. Soon Johnny discovers that Mark had been corresponding with a widow named Sally in St. Louis, and she’s en route to be a mail-order bride to Mark. Seeing no other option, Johnny makes a fateful decision to go through with the wedding, posing as his brother. But Sally has secrets she's hiding too. How will a marriage survive with so much deception?
Susan Page Davis
A Maine native, Susan Page Davis is an award-winning author with more than seventy novels and novellas. She's a winner of the 2012 and 2016 Will Rogers Medallion Awards and a past winner of the Carol Award and two Inspirational Readers' Choice Awards. Enjoy her mysteries, romantic suspense, and historical romance with a faith thread in most of her stories. Susan now lives in Kentucky.
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Reviews for The Outlaw Takes a Bride
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A new twist on the Mail Order Bride packed with a bunch of lies that spiral out of control, and in the end what is the truth. We also have a western story as we are on ranches spanding from Colorado to Texas, along with gunfights.When the book opens we see what a bleak life Sally Golding is living, she barely exists, and falls in love with a man she has never met by mail. No wonder she was willing to leave St Louis behind and head to the unknown in Texas to marry Mark Paynter.We meet Johnny Paynter as a friend tells him he is wanted for murder, and he takes his advice. They head to Texas and end up finding his brother’s body, and they bury Mark. Oh dear, we are getting deeper and deeper in lies. Johnny now takes Mark’s identity when he goes to town and people call him Mark.Of course, he can’t keep on an even keel with these lies, and when he finds letters of the pending arrival of Sally, the next day. Now what? You can guess what is about to happen, or can you. What do you do with Sally?This is a page turning read and I enjoyed the added twists of not knowing what was going to happen when the truth is revealed.I received this book through Net Galley and the Publish Barbour, and was not required to give a positive review.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Can an outlaw find love and happiness when his life is nothing but a lie?
Springtime in Colorado, 1885. Johnny Paynter is accused of a murder and flees towards his brother’s ranch in Texas. Although when he arrives, he finds his brother Mark dead! Folk in town think that Johnny is Mark, and Johnny doesn’t correct them. He begins to start a new life as Mark and things go rather well. Until he finds out that Mark has a mail order bride on her way to Texas. Deciding that there is nothing else to do, he takes Sally as his wife and continues life as Mark Paynter. With a relationship founded on lies, how can it survive?
The foundation of any relationship should be founded on truth and honesty. If it isn’t, there is much turmoil working through the mess. But there is always hope, the Lord can heal the hurt and His mercies are new every day. We can always begin again. I have enjoyed both books that I have read by Susan Page Davis now. The Outlaw Takes a Bride is a western romance, with really good Christian principles. She reminds us that we should strive to live an honest life, but even when we mess things up, the Lord is there to forgive and restore what has been broken. This book is action packed with bandits, touching and romantic, and an overall good read!
I received a free digital copy of The Outlaw Takes a Bride from Barbour Publishing, Inc. through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I usually love Ms. Davis's novels. I have read several others and thoroughly enjoyed them. I tried hard to like this one, but just couldn't get into it. It gives the ending away almost in the first or second chapter, it is so obvious. The characters were not that interesting. In fact, I found them irritating and not believable. If you like the Western Romance type novel, Susan Page Davis has several real good ones out there. I am sorry, but I just didn't think this one was one of them.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great story! I loved it! Kept me interested! Christian views in it also.