title: In My Defense: An Unlikely Romance, a Deadly Gunshot, and a Young Widow's Road to Redemption
author: Leigh Ann Bryant
description: Leigh Ann Bryant, an award-winning writer, survived her marriage to an abusive man, whom she ultimately killed in self-defense. She was jailed and stood trial for capital murder. Leigh Ann has worked as a registered nurse in several areas of specialty, and currently works as an acute-care dialysis nurse. She speaks at prisons throughout the US telling her riveting story, and lives with her husband and son in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<br /> <br />
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  Rival outlaws team up for a dangerously seductive partnership that was
  supposed to be strictly business.
  
  In London’s most glittering salons, she is lovely young widow Lady Elizabeth
  Barnes-Finchley. But by night, she rides as highwayman Blackerby Swift,
  seeking vengeance against the man who took from her all she once loved. Then a
  pistol shot on a moonlit heath brings her face-to-face with a rival
  highwayman: Marcus Worthington, darkly handsome, lethally dangerous—and
  determined to stop her.
  
  A fallen-from-grace earl with a nefarious reputation, Marcus wants vengeance
  against the man responsible for his father’s death and his family’s ruin.
  Elizabeth is a clever, daring, enchanting obstacle in his path. The two
  outlaws reluctantly agree to join forces against their mutual enemy, but the
  odds are against both of them surviving the dangerous gambit—and falling in
  love was never part of the plan.
  
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