Ok, so you know when you see the title you’re thinking the
heroine’s the beauty, right? Wrong!
Set in Kansas and Missouri in 1870, this is the story of
Cathleen (“Cat”) Chase, a farm wife who became a bounty hunter, a legend known
as Cat O’Banyon, in order to hunt down her husband’s killer. In her words, her
occupation was “born from the ashes that had tumbled across Billy’s grave
nearly two years ago.”
Cat learned all she knows from Alexi Romanov, a man so
pretty he is a beauty with “hands that could make a violin sing or a woman
moan.” He was more than her teacher and her healer when she was broken up over
Billy’s death; he was her lover. After he’d taught her to shoot and take on any
disguise, she left him without a word. Now he’s come to find her.
This is a very clever, well-written tale that captured me
from the first page. The banter between Cat and Alexi and Cat’s own thoughts
are priceless. And there is more here, lots more. It reflects research into the
period, which I so appreciate. It’s a post Civil War story in which the hero is
still suffering from the nightmare he experienced.
It’s a story of running away from your past and dealing with
the hard stuff. As Alexi said,
“I understand more than most the need to become another. To
bury the past along with who you were, to create a new life completely
different from it, and forget, or try to, the person who came before.”
I highly recommend this unique story from the Old West. It
will keep you reading to solve the mystery and finally see Alexi and Cat come
together.
The Once Upon a Time
in the West series:
Beauty and The Bounty
Hunter
An Outlaw in
Wonderland
The Lone Warrior
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