title: Unbridled Murder (A Carson Stables Mystery)
author:  Leigh Hearon 
description: <b>Leigh Hearon</b> began her own P.I. agency, Leigh Hearon Investigative Services, in 1992. Her cases have appeared on <i>In the Dead of Night, Forensic Files, 48 Hours, </i>Court TV<i>, City Confidential, Unsolved Mysteries</i>, <i>Americas Most Wanted, </i>and<i> CBS Evening News with Connie Chung</i>. Hearon was an avid rider of horses throughout her childhood. She currently has a Saddlebred mare, Jolie Jeune Femme, and enjoys watching Jolie and two rescue mares cavort on a fifty-five-acre farm she shares with her husband.Visit her on the Web at leighhearon.com.
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  Welcome to Bent, Wyoming  
  Where the Wild West Never Died
  
  
  Resident bad boy and saloon owner Grady Carson knows his brother is not a
  murderer, and he’ll do anything to prove it. But partnering with Laurel
  Delaney? Worst idea ever. The beautiful by-the-book cop challenges him like no
  other. Bad family blood—and a killer at large—makes their attraction
  unthinkable. Dangerous. Reckless. How can they solve a crime to prevent a
  family war and then let forbidden love ignite it anew?
  
  
  Carsons & Delaneys
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Grady leaned closer and closer, making Laurel’s eyes widen and the air between
  them crackle with electricity.
  
  
  It was an electricity he’d avoided his entire adult life out of duty, out of a
  healthy belief in the history of Carsons and Delaneys and Bent and
  destruction.
  
  
  “You’re a Carson,” she whispered.
  
  
  He stared at her for something like a full minute, and then he laughed.
  
  
  He supposed he had two