Originally Titled: Angel Meets the BadmanOriginally Titled: Angel Meets the Badman"Be prepared to taken on an emotional journey to a humid location full of feelings, threats, fear, and budding passion. I promise you, you will be exhausted when it's over." Five Stars. βBrenda, ReaderAs a little girl, Sara Brand witnessed the murder of her family, an event that has left deep emotional scars. She's beginning to heal, having found extended family in Texas and the brother she thought she'd lost. On break from her job teaching Kindergarten, Sarah has come to vacation at Sugar Keep, an old plantation in the Louisiana Bayou country.But trouble hasn't finished with her yet. It shows up in the form of darkly handsome Jake Nash, a man with a hands-off attitude and sizzling brown eyes, who turns out to be an ex-con suspected of murder. Before she can make up her mind about him, someone is killed right in front of Sarah's eyes. She didn't see the killer, but the killer has no way of knowing that.Now she's on the run and there's only one person protecting her. Jake. Is he "her shied" as a Voodoo Priestess told her, or is he stalking her with the intent to silence her forever?This book is part of Maggie Shayne's TEXAS BRAND SERIES1. The Littlest Cowboy2. The Baddest Virgin in Texas3. Badlands Bad Boy4. Long Gone Lonesome Blues (formerly The Husband She Couldn't Remember)5. The Lone Cowboy (formerly Texas Guardian/That Mysterious Texas Brand Man)6. Lone Star Lonely (formerly The Baddest Bride in Texas)7. The Outlaw Bride8. Texas Angel (formerly Angel Meets the Badman)9. Texas Homecoming (formerly The Homecoming.)"This book has everything, humor, sadness, love and a strong loving family. It is a great book as all the Brand books have been, I would recommend it to everyone who loves a great story." Five Stars! βDorothy Reynolds, ReaderNY Times Bestselling Author, RITA Award Winner and former television writer Maggie Shayne has authored more than 60 novels.