Cover Crush: Lady or the Tiger by Heather M. Herrman

This cover? Whew. We’re in love and a little afraid…and that’s exactly how we like it.

Lady or the Tiger is serving Wild West rage, heartbreak, and revenge on a flaming platter. A teenage girl confesses to murder…only to find her not-so-dead, very abusive husband waiting for her outside the jail cell. Yeah.

That tagline?! Some girls break hearts. She takes them. Dead. We’re dead.

If you like your antiheroines sharp and your Westerns feral, Lady or the Tiger needs to be on your pick up list for tomorrow!

Lady or the Tiger

by Heather M. Herrman
on June 10, 2025
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A twisty, darkly seductive murder mystery, starring a teenage killer whose trial in the Wild West is upended when her first victim, her husband, arrives alive with a story to tell.

When nineteen-year-old Belle King turns herself in for murder, the last thing she expects to see is her abusive husband standing outside her Dodge City jail cell. He was the first man she ever meant to kill (but certainly not the last!). Somehow, though, her husband is there, hale and hearty, and very much not dead. With his arrival her plans in jail are jeopardized, and she’ll be forced to resort to all the tricks in her arsenal to prevent him from ever being in control of her again. But as a girl in the 1880s Wild West, the last thing anyone will believe is a woman—even when she confesses to her own crimes.

This story—of how Alice Springer, a mountain girl from Kentucky, became the infamous Belle King, of how she found the tiger in her heart, becoming the wickedest woman in the Wild West—is a love story that cuts through time and patriarchal ties.