Jennifer Crusie's Blog: Argh Ink

Right now, today, Monday Tuesday, Pat Gaffney’s Outlaw in Paradise is a Daily Deal at Amazon. It’s wildly romantic and funny as hell, and one of my faves, especially its hero who rides into town wearing all black on a black horse smoking a black cigarette. Really, you have to read this one, and at $1.99, it’s a steal:

When Jesse Gault saunters into Paradise, Oregon, with a gun on each hip, the town is instantly abuzz. What could a legendary gunslinger want in Paradise? And what will the townsfolk have to do to keep his trouble from becoming their own? Cady McGill, proprietor of the Rogue Tavern, thinks she may know what Gault has come for, and she doesn’t like it one bit.

Cady’s ongoing battle with Merle Wylie, who has been buying up or burning down properties all over town, is coming to a head, as Wylie tries to get his hands on her tavern and her dried-up gold mine. Hiring a gunfighter like Gault would be just Wylie’s speed. But Cady senses something else behind Gault’s mysterious façade, and as the two grow closer she learns that his closely guarded secrets could spell life or death for the town—and for Cady herself.

ETA: Lily is $1.99, too! It’s Gaffney’s excursion into Gothic. Off to buy it now.