Book Reviews: “What a Bride Wants” and “Make Believe Wedding”

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The first book and ninth book of the “The Great Wedding Giveaway”, “What A Bride Wants ” and “Make-Believe Wedding ”, respectively, are romances with a capital R.

Set in the fictional town of Marietta, Montana, both books are about strong women and the alpha men they love.

Author Kelly Hunter had the honor to debut the series with her “What A Bride Wants ” which follows Ella Grace Emerson and Cam Sawyer who comes from the opposite end of the financial spectrum in Marietta. Ella Grace is the crowned “princess” of Marietta being the working heiress of the vast Emerson ranch and her family’s other holdings. Cam Sawyer is a lowly bartender at the local watering hole. It’s a recipe for disaster but both of them were in for several big surprises before they can get their happily ever after.

If the first book is about Marietta’s royalty, the ninth book, Sarah Mayberry’s “Make-Believe Wedding ” is about blue collar workers. Andie Bennet, currently a journeyman electrician has been in love with her brother’s best friend and currently her boss, Heath McGregor since she was 13. Andie was ready to give up on her unrequited love but the Marietta Great Wedding Giveaway happened and all of a sudden, Andie was in the running for Heath’s affections.

A series is usually done by one author. “The Great Wedding Giveaway” defies that norm. Someone at Tule Publishing had the great idea of pulling these stories under one “roof” – the “Montana Born Books”. With the fictional town of Marietta as the common ground that binds all the books, what we have a great collection of books authors.

DESCRIPTIONS

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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Make-Believe Wedding

Everyone in Marietta, Montana, is in love and getting married – at least that’s the way it feels to Andie Bennett the night of the Valentine’s Ball. As she watches the man she’s loved from afar for half her life dance with another woman, Andie allows herself a moment of sheer fantasy as she fills out a stray entry form for the Great Wedding Giveaway. Andie channels years of fantasy and yearning for Heath McGregor onto the page, but she never intends to actually enter the Giveaway. Only a crazy woman would do that. But fate has other ideas….

When Heath learns he and Andie are last minute finalists in the Great Wedding Giveaway, he’s completely baffled. How on earth could anyone make such a ridiculous mistake? When it becomes clear that Andie will be humiliated if the slip-up becomes public, Heath does what any good friend would – he suggests they pretend the engagement is real until the Giveaway is over and then quietly “break up” when no one is paying any attention. It’s the perfect solution, except Heath very quickly realises that pretending Andie is his is no hardship at all. In fact, it may just be the best thing that’s ever happened to him…

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