"Merging conventional western themes with an usual backdrop and plot, Kernan creates an engaging and fascinating story with strong characters that will provide readers with a real understanding of the western mentality." ~RT BookReview on Outlaw Bride~

She'll do anything to save her family ... Even breaking an outlaw out of prison.

When Bridget Callahan's family is stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains by early snows, she seeks the help of the one man capable of taking on such a perilous rescue. Unfortunately, he is a condemned killer — sentenced to hang.

Cole Ellis has vowed never to return to the mountains but, facing the hangman's noose, he agrees to help Bridget rescue her family in return for his freedom. Now he wonders if he has traded a quick death for a slow one.

But, as they set out with a posse in pursuit and the menacing mountains ahead, she wonders if trusting this dangerous, enigmatic man might be the biggest risk of all.