Review & Giveaway - What A Bride Wants by Kelly Hunter

What a bride wants…

Ella Grace Emerson adores her father, but he keeps trying to marry her off to every eligible rancher in Montana. When he puts an ad in the paper on her behalf – for a docile house-husband –

Ella retaliates with one of her own, pinned to the noticeboard of the local saloon. No husband required, housebroken or otherwise. What she wants is the perfect lover.

What a bride needs…

Newcomer Cam Sawyer is perfectly willing to tear up the sheets with Ella and be her partner in chaos. She wants a bad boy and he’s had experience aplenty. But what she really needs is a strong and loving partner, and until Sawyer stops running from his past he can never be that.

Sawyer’s the one Ella wants. But can he be the man she needs?

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Love, love, loved Sawyer and Ella's story! Sawyer is intrigued by Ella when she responds to an ad placed by her father seeking a husband for her by advertising for a perfect lover instead. Working temporarily as a bartender at Grey's saloon, Sawyer has secrets of his own that are keeping him from risking his heart. However, before long, he's not able to keep away from Ella. Feisty, headstrong and not afraid to do and take what she wants. And Ella want's Sawyer. What A Bride Wants is another great book from Kelly Hunter and Montana Born Books. It drew me in from the beginning and I had trouble putting it down. I loved Ella and Sawyer's connection from the first time they met and how they dealt with the issues that may have kept them apart. It's a fun, sweet read and a great kick off to the Great Wedding Giveaway series!  

 

 

Accidentally educated in the sciences, Kelly Hunter didn’t think to start writing romances until she was surrounded by the jungles of Malaysia for a year and didn’t have anything to read. Eventually she decided that writing romance suited her far better than throwing sterile screw-worm flies out of airplane windows, and changed careers.

Kelly now lives in Australia, surrounded by lush farmland and family, 2 dogs, 3 miniature cows, a miniature pig, a 3-legged cat and a small flock of curious chickens. There are still flies, but their maggots don’t feed on flesh. Bargain.

Kelly is a USA Today bestselling author, a three-time Romance Writers of America RITA finalist and loves writing to the short contemporary romance form.

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Spotlight Read & Review - Good Together by CJ Carmichael

 

 

Some love stories have to begin with a falling-out-of-love story.

 

Mattie Carrigan's been helping her rodeo cowboy husband Wes Bishop run his family's Tennessee Walking Horse operation since they were married nineteen years ago. Blessed with twin daughters who've recently left for college, Mattie is looking forward to this new stage in her and Wes's life.

 

But when she finds a strange key in her husband's jacket, she's forced to admit that Wes has been quiet and distant lately. Turns out he has been keeping secrets. And he's not the only one. Even the rancher next door, Nat Diamond--a friend Mattie could always count on in the past--seems to be holding something back from her.

 

Good Together is for anyone who has ever pondered what it means to be married. Or had to reinvent her life when one breaks down. It's about having your heart broken but being strong enough to survive and love again.

 

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I really enjoyed Maddie's story. On the heels of her twin daughters going off to college, her husband Wes tells her he wants out of the marriage. When her neighbor, Nathaniel, begins to help out they grow closer. Good Together is a story of loss, love and hope with a little something for everyone. It's definitely worth the read.

 

 

CJ has published over 35 novels and has twice been nominated for a RITA award. She likes to write stories about romance, family and intrigue, usually in small town or rural settings. When it’s time to take a break from the computer, she heads to the Rocky Mountains near her home in Calgary where she lives with her partner Michael and their cat, Penny.

 

 

Review of Home for Christmas by Melissa McClone

Ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon.

Rachel Murphy loves the scent of gingerbread baking almost as much as she enjoys creating custom edible houses at Christmastime. But she needs a bigger kitchen if she wants to make the most of her impromptu holiday business.

Enter Nate Vaughn, handsome venture capitalist turned Montana dude ranch owner and her brother’s boss. Nate’s commercial kitchen is perfect for the baker. And he thinks she might be perfect for him…as a business partner.

After being burned by a celebrity baker, Rachel’s wary of Nate’s interest in her gingerbread houses, not to mention his mistletoe kisses. She should leave the Bar V5 ranch and return to Arizona. Or can Nate convince her she’s already home?

 

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 Melissa McClone’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University led her to a job with a major airline where she travelled the globe and met her husband. But analyzing jet engine performance couldn’t compete with her love of writing happily ever afters. Her first full-time writing endeavor was her first sale when she was pregnant with her first child! Since then, she has published over twenty-five romance novels with Harlequin and been nominated for Romance Writers of America’s RITA award. When she isn’t writing, she’s usually driving her minivan to/from her children’s swim and soccer practices, 4-H meetings and dog shows. She also supports deployed service members through Soldiers’ Angels and fosters cats through a local non-kill rescue shelter. Melissa lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three school-aged children, two spoiled Norwegian Elkhounds and cats who think they rule the house. (They do!)

 

Christmas romances are some of my favorite romances to read. I look forward to them every year. Melissa McClone's Home For Christmas has the pleasure of being my first Christmas read of 2013. Rachel is visiting her brother in Montana and is trying to recover from being betrayed by people she thought were friends. She spends her time creating masterpiece gingerbread houses to sell to residents of Marietta, Montana in order to raise money for a down payment for her own business. When Nate, her brother's boss, offers advice and assistance in reaching her goals, Rachel is fearful of trusting him. Home For Christmas made me hungry for yummy Christmas goodies, hot cocoa and hot cowboys. With Rachel's struggle to trust again and Nate's need to learn how to not treat everything as business, Nate and Rachel's story will warm your heart and make you want to go Home For Christmas.

 

 

Do you like Christmas romances? Do you have a favorite?



Review of Tempt Me, Cowboy by Megan Crane

 

Too much temptation...

Chelsea Collier wants nothing more than to save the old depot built by her railway baron ancestor and turn it into a museum—until it's sold out from under her!

Jasper Flint made himself filthy rich in the Texas oil business by the age of 35. Now he wants a quieter life and building a microbrewery in Marietta, Montana is the perfect project.

Neither one of them knows what to do with the passion that explodes between them! But Chelsea knows a man like Jasper will never stay in one place for too long. Can he convince her that this time, he means to stay?

 

 

 

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USA Today bestselling author Megan Crane writes women’s fiction, chick lit, work-for-hire YA, and a lot of Harlequin Presents as Caitlin Crews. She also teaches creative writing classes both online at mediabistro.com and at UCLA Extension’s prestigious Writers’ Program, where she finally utilizes the MA and PhD in English Literature she received from the University of York in York, England. She currently lives in California, with her animator/comic-book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.

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Chelsea Collier, always the dutiful daughter and school teacher was not expecting to meet Jasper Flint when she went to confront the man who bought the old railway depot. Despite their meeting where Jasper assumed she was there to hit on him, he touched something in Chelsea that she wasn't expecting. Before long she is throwing caution to the wind, ignoring the talk of the people in town and taking the chance at exploring the feelings Jasper inspires in her when they are together. There was just so much I loved about this book; the characters, the emotions, the town. Megan Crane did a fabulous job of bringing the town and characters of Marietta, Montana to life. I really enjoyed the debut novella from Montana Born books. I look forward to visiting Marietta again and again!

 

I love cowboy heroes, they are one of my favorites. Who are your favorite type of heroes?