Monday, January 13, 2014

A Match Made in Texas by Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, Carol Cox, Mary Connealy

I absolutely LOVED this book!  Connealy and Witemeyer are two of my favorite authors and I've enjoyed the books that I've read by Jennings and Cox as well.

A Cowboy Unmatched by Karen Witemeyer follows Neill Archer, the last of the Archer brothers, who is introduced to us in her book, Short Straw Bride.  He ends up helping out a young widow, Clara Danvers, due to an anonymous note left for him about a job.  Even though the story is short, since its a novella, I didn't feel like it was rushed.  I loved that Neill's brothers were there for him in the end.

An Unforeseen Match by Regina Jennings is the next novella in the book.  The main character is Grace O'Malley, one of the former school teachers, who is losing her vision and so the town has set her up in the house that Clara Danvers lived in.  Clayton Weber comes to town to get money so that he can buy a claim.  He goes to the schoolhouse where the town is meeting and ends up with a newspaper article advertising for help for Grace.  There is a misunderstanding that ensues as well as some forgiveness and reconciliation that happens in the end.

No Match for Love is the story that Carol Cox wrote.  Lucy Benson decides to take a job as a companion.  She has been living with friends but she feels like she needs to step out on her own.  She travels and meets Andrew Simms who has hired her to help his Aunt Martha, who he thinks might be going crazy.  When Lucy arrives, at first, she thinks the same thing and then her opinion changes.  Lucy learns that things are not always as they appear.

The finally story is Meeting Her Match by Mary Connealy.  This story centers around Hannah Taylor.  She is the schoolteacher as well as acts as mother to her younger siblings.  This changes when her father marries and they end up kicking her out of the house and setting her up where her new "mother" used to live.  Marcus Whitfield has had a crush on her, but he is too shy to know how to approach her to let her know.  Due to some conspiring by some of the ladies in town, her life takes an unexpected turn.  She also learns that sometimes you just need to open up your eyes and what you are missing may have been in front of you all along.

I received this book for free from Netgalley.  I was not required to write a positive review for receiving this book.

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