White Hat Devil: The Saloon Contract

Six men fall before the piano stops playing. The white-hatted gunslinger tips his hat and walks out of the Dust and Dice Saloon, leaving blood on the sawdust and a trail of questions nobody wants to answer.

Mara, the saloon's sharp-eyed owner, knows exactly who he is. She put a fat bounty on his head years ago to settle an old score. Now he's standing in her doorway, and the storm coming for her land deal is bigger than any grudge she's been carrying.

She hires him as her bodyguard. He accepts the gold with a grin that never reaches his eyes.

Kane moves into the back room. Mara keeps a shotgun under the bar. Every clipped exchange between them crackles with danger and heat neither of them wants to name. Rivals circle the land deal from outside. Old enemies catch Kane's scent and start moving. Trust is a luxury both of them have survived without, yet every shared fight and sleepless night drags them closer to a line they swore they'd never cross.

Then the truth about the bounty surfaces, and the contract between them shatters. What's left is raw, furious attraction and a partnership built entirely in gunfire and bad decisions.

The final deal turns into a deadly trap. The saloon burns. Mara and Kane have to decide whether the only exit runs through each other, or whether the white-hatted devil rides away once the last shot is fired.

Can two people who started as hunter and prey ever lay down their weapons long enough to claim something more dangerous than gold?

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Out here, love hits harder than a bullet. And the bullets don't miss.

Deadly skilled outlaws and the fierce women who match them collide in dust, blood, and dark laughter. White-hatted killers, vengeful cowboys, silent bounty hunters: each one finds passion in a place where survival is the only standing rule. Every smile hides a blade. Every kiss carries a twist.

Raw, darkly comic, and fiercely steamy, these standalone stories run on gunsmoke, betrayal, and heat as relentless as the desert sun beating down on cracked earth.

No gentle hearts. No soft landings.

More deadly romances ride into town if the bullets keep flying.

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E-kirja: 26. elokuuta 2026