Blood Oath

＂Kill or be killed historical romance with bandits, Pinkerton agents, bounty hunters, mystery and more. Melissa Lenhardt writes with passion and does not hold anything back.＂ -RT Book Reviews
Laura Elliston and William Kindle are on the run-from the Army and from every miscreant in the West eager to claim the ＄500 bounty for Laura’s capture as their own. But the danger isn’t just from those pursuing them. Laura and Kindle each have demons of their own and a past that won’t stay dead. Exhausted, scared, scarred, and surrounded by enemies, neither realizes the greatest danger is yet to come.

Blood Oath is the second novel in a gripping historical fiction series.

＂Packs a big punch with grit and raw passion. There is mystery, murder, Indians, bounty hunters and intrigue. The women are brave, intelligent and don’t take crap from anyone. Lenhardt is a talented, creative writer; she has a grand slam out of the park with Sawbones.＂ -- RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!) 4.5 stars

＂Raw, gritty and sometimes graphic, Melissa Lenhardt has crafted a page-turner. In Sawbones, the women are smart, brave and at times ’incorrigible.’ The plot twists, unique characters and intriguing story of passion and betrayal make this a book well worth discovering.＂ -- Jane Kirkpatrick, New York Times bestselling author of A Light in the Wilderness

＂Absolutely loved it! I couldn’t tear myself away from Sawbones. An epic story of love and courage that sweeps from east to west, Sawbones will rip right through you.＂ -- Marci Jefferson, author of Girl on the Golden Coin

＂You will fall in love with Catherine, as I did, as she struggles to assert herself in a violent and treacherous world, fighting not only prejudice but evil.＂ -- Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author

＂Sawbones is a thoroughly original, smart and satisfying hybrid, perhaps a new subgenre: the feminist Western.＂ -- Lone Star Literary Life

Melissa Lenhardt is the author of Heresy, the Sawbones historical fiction series, and the Jack McBride mystery series. Her debut mystery, Stillwater, was a finalist for the 2014 Whidbey Writers’ MFA Alumni Emerging Writers Contest, and Sawbones, her historical fiction debut, was hailed as a ＂thoroughly original, smart and satisfying hybrid, perhaps a new sub-genre: the feminist Western＂ by Lone Star Literary Life. She lives in Texas with her husband, two sons, and two Golden Retrievers.