Desiree Banks

Desiree Banks writes historical romance, drawing on her work as an English teacher and her interest in travel to imagine lives in other periods and places. The Gallows’ Bounty opens her West of Second Chances series and pairs bounty hunter Ezra Boden with Willow Donovan, a woman he saves from hanging. Their developing trust is complicated by violence in both characters' pasts and by the uncertainties of a western frontier setting. The Sheriff's Widow continues the series with a different couple linked by bereavement and the possibility of beginning again. The Gallows’ Bounty first appeared in 2012 and is catalogued as a western historical romance. Banks has also published Landry's Last Love, extending her interest in relationships tested by separation and difficult histories. Her first series title establishes the central idea suggested by the sequence name: characters marked by loss may still find a future through patience, protection, and mutual confidence.