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Book Review of Abbie's Outlaw (Harlequin Historical, No 750)

Abbie's Outlaw (Harlequin Historical, No 750)
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Abbie's Outlaw by Victoria Bylin
Midas, New Mexico Series Book 2
Our hero in this book is a man with a dark past, real dark. John Horatio Leaf lived a life that some described as John having been to hell and back. Thanks to a prison stay and Silas Jones he was now known as Reverend John Leaf. He preached like he lived and as he saw life. When he receives a letter from a young girl saying she believed he was her father, his world came down around him. His father, Isaac Leaf, was pure evil and John did not want to pass those genes on to any child. He chose the single life as well in case his past ever caught up to him, especially Ben Gantry. When Abigail Moore Windsor comes to town and is looking for her runaway daughter, the one and same who sent him a letter, his world comes down even further.  He had met Abbie when he was twenty-one and never really forgot her.
Abbie and he son, Robbie, came to Midas hoping to find Susanna there already. Instead she learns that she may have gone to Bitterroot, Wyoming and John had enemies of the worst kind there. Her father had pushed her to marry Robert Windsor when they found out she was with child and she has just lived the worst fourteen years ever. If she cried at Robert's funeral...they would have been happy tears. Seeing John brought up old feelings quickly. She just hoped he could be a loving father to their daughter. She had been treated badly all her life by Robert and her father, Judge Lawton Moore. The longer Abbie is around Midas with Johnny, the more she remembers that seventeen year old girl and how she felt about him back then, and maybe still. Only fourteen years of cruel treatment had turned her into a broken woman. Can these two people find the love from long ago and break through their pasts that hold them both prisoners?
Susanna's story is in the 3rd book: Midnight Marriage.

**Sexual situations within marriage.