Anonymous
notes show up around the town of Dry Gulch, Texas, helping women find true
love.
A Cowboy
Unmatched is by Karen Witemeyer and is the first story. In it, we get to read about Neill
Archer. He has three other brothers and
you can read about two of them in Short-Straw Bride and Stealing the
Preacher. In this novella, we read how
Neill has been traveling around trying to make the money to buy his own ranch
and prove himself. Clara is pregnant,
alone and needs a friend. Her no-good
husband is dead and her father-in-law is determined to take the baby from her. Clara is going to have to decide whether she
trusts Neill enough to save her baby and her heart. Good story, Witemeyer is a great writer and I
always enjoy her books.
An
Unforeseen Match by Regina Jennings is up next.
I’ve read Sixty Acres and a Bride in the past and enjoyed her writing
style. Grace has a disease that is
slowly taking away her sight. Now that
she can no longer teach, the school board has purchased Clara’s old ranch to
give Grace a place to live. Clayton is a
scarred man on his way to the land rush in Oklahoma when his horse dies and
he’s stuck in Dry Gulch. Clayton
challenges Grace to try and be more independent. He is able to be himself since he believes
she can’t see the huge scar that mars his face.
As time passes and it gets closer to the time for Clayton to leave, he
imagines that maybe he can be the man Grace needs. Will misunderstandings keep them apart? Great story, flowed well with the first one.
Next up is
No Match for Love by Carol Cox. I’ve
read Love in Disguise and Trouble in Store in the past. In this story, Lucy takes a job looking after
Andrew’s aunt. It seems that his aunt is
seeing cows jumping over the moon. The
aunt isn’t happy about her nephew arranging a nursemaid for her, but Lucy’s
circumstances compel the woman to give her a chance. The sightings don’t stop and once Lucy sees
the strange sight, will they be able to convince Andrew that they’re not crazy
and find out the truth? This story was
cute and a nice little read.
Finally we
have Meeting Her Match by Mary Connealy.
My only previous experience with this author was with the book Out of Control. Hannah has been taking care of everyone
around her for a long time. When her
mother dies unexpectedly, Hannah takes her place running the household. She is resigned to a spinster life, but her
father remarries and basically kicks her out of the house. Mark has admired Hannah from afar for many
years but is completely tongue-tied around her and gives her the impression
he’s not interested in her. The end
conversation was a little weird at times, but all in all it was a good ending
to a neat book.
Overall, I
liked this book and thought it flowed well and each author’s contribution was
well written. Good Book!
*I received
a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
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