" ...she was honest enough to admit she married him because actions other men would not conceive of to start with or carry out to finish with were ordinary for [him]... not that she ever wanted or needed a husband who would steal without compunction, but she wanted that toughness, that hard eyed indifference to what anyone else thought, to - danger. "

― Ellen O'Connell , Beautiful Bad Man (Sutton Family, #1)