At Love's Bidding by Regina Jennings

From Goodreads.com   After helping her grandfather at their Boston auction house, Miranda Wimplegate discovers she's accidentally sold a powerful family's prized portrait to an anonymous bidder. Desperate to appease the furious family, her grandfather tracks it to the Missouri Ozarks and makes an outlandish offer to buy the local auction house if they promise not to sell anything until he arrives.

Upon their arrival, however, they discover their new business doesn't deal in fine antiques, but in livestock. And its manager, ruggedly handsome Wyatt Ballentine, is frustrated to discover his fussy new bosses don't know a thing about the business he's single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with more cattle than they can count--but no mysterious painting--Miranda and Wyatt form an unlikely but charged partnership to try and salvage a bad situation getting worse. 


My Take:  This was a delightful romp into the Ozark Mountains. This is the second in a series but you don't have to have read the first one to enjoy this one.  Miranda's family owns an auction house in Boston.  She is carrying on her grandmother's legacy of being nice to the more unfortunate.  After a particular auction there is a mishap about a painting the they accidently sold. They track it down to Missouri and decide to try and get it from there.  Miranda decides to go to keep an eye on her grandfather and also to get a break from her cousin who is wanting to marry her.  Once the get to Missouri they are not use to the way things are done and how casual things are.  they also know nothing about cattle whichi is what the Missouri auction house deals with.  This a great story that has all the humor that accompany a duck out of water story.  

I was a sent a review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review by Litfuse. 

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

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

Fom Goodreads.com

In the small town of Dry Gulch, Texas, a good-hearted busybody just can't keep herself from surreptitiously trying to match up women in dire straits with men of good character she hopes can help them. How is she to know she's also giving each couple a little nudge toward love?

A Cowboy Unmatched
Neill isn't sure who hired him to repair Clara's roof--he only knows Clara desperately needs his help. Can he convince this stubborn widow to let down her guard and take another chance on love?

An Unforeseen Match
Hoping to earn an honest wage on his way to the land rush, Clayton ends up on Grace's doorstep, lured by a classified ad. He may have signed on for more than he expected though--and he may have found the one woman who can keep him from moving on.

No Match for Love
Andrew can't fathom how refined Lucy ended up as the caretaker to his dotty aunt, and somehow her arrival has prompted even more bizarre occurrences around the ranch. When they join forces to unearth the truth, will the attraction between Andrew and Lucy develop into more?

Meeting Her Match
When the tables are turned and a tenderhearted meddler becomes the beneficiary of a matchmaking scheme, her world is turned upside down. As her entire life changes, will she finally be able to tell the banker's son how much she cares for him?

My Take: This is a set of four novellas written by the four authors listed.  I have read and enjoyed each of these authors except for Carol Cox but after reading her novella I think I will be checking out other things she has written.  These Four stories are all set in Dry Gulch Texas and they each involve a story of  matchmaking except the last one when the matchmaker gets her own match.  These stories are just the right length to read when you just want to read a quick story.  Well worth the time.  Nice clean romance.

I received a review copy from Bethany house in exchange for my honest opinion. 

Love in the Balance by Regina Jennings

About Love in the Balance: 

Handsome Cowboy or Debonair Tycoon.
How's a Girl to Choose?

Molly Lovelace dreams of a life without cares in Lockhart, Texas. She also dreams of handsome wrangler Bailey Garner, her ardent but inconsistent beau. The problem is, with Bailey's poor prospects, she just can't fit the two dreams together.

Then mysterious stranger Edward Pierrepont sweeps into town-and her life-and for the first time Molly wonders if she's met the man who can give her everything. But he won't be in Lockhart long and while it certainly seems like he talks about their glorious future together, she can't quite get Bailey out of her mind.

What's a girl to do with all these decisions when love is in the balance? 

Link to buy the book: http://ow.ly/iTdiA          

Meet Regina:  

  

Regina Jennings is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University with a degree in English and a history minor. She has worked at The Mustang News and First Baptist Church of Mustang, along with time at the Oklahoma National Stockyards and various livestock shows. She now lives outside Oklahoma City with her husband and four children. 

Find out more about Regina at 

http://www.reginajennings.com/.

 My Take: I really liked Regina's novel Sixty Acres and a Bride.  This book is set in the same local with some of the same characters but definitely not a continuation of that story.  I was very frustrated with Molly Lovelace one of the main characters.  She was always looking at men as potential husbands and their monetary status was usually a main catalyst for whether they were a good candidate or not.  She got this honestly as that is what her parents told her she was to be doing while she was working in town.  Unfortunately for her her heart already belonged to Bailey the other main character who didn't have good prospects money wise.  The whole story is about how they both make decisions to make sure that Molly is provided for in the style that they think she should be and how these decisions are not always the best.  It was a good story but I didn't like Molly to much from the very beginning.  I will have to say I enjoyed Sixty Acres better but I still liked this book.  I would recommend it if you like Western Romances.  You do not have to have read the first book to enjoy this one. 

I received a review copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion from Litfuse. 

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Sixty Acres and a Bride by Regina Jennings

 
Sizty Acres and a Bride by Regina Jennings

From Goodread:
With nothing to their names, young widow Rosa Garner and her mother-in-law return to Texas and the family ranch. Only now the county is demanding back taxes and the women have only three months to pay. Though facing eviction, Rosa can't keep herself from falling in love with the countryside and the wonderful extended family who want only her best. Learning the American customs is not easy, however, and this beautiful young widow can't help but catch wandering eyes. Where some offer help with dangerous strings attached, only one man seems honorable. But when Weston Garner, still grieving his own lost love, is unprepared to give his heart, to what lengths will Rosa go to save her future?

My Take:
I really enjoyed this book.  It was a bit different in the presentation.  It was a bit amusing seeing how it was difficult to translate between the two cultures.  Some of the characters would say something and Rosa would take them literally and then they were dismayed at what she does.  Some of the situations had some bad consequences but they were a learning experience for everyone involved.  I liked the story but I did feel like the ending was a bit rushed.  It seemed like everything had to be tied together within a few chapters as compared to the nice leisurely feel of the rest of the book.

If you like Historical Fiction this would be a good book for you as it takes a look from the perspective of a Mexican Woman coming to America.  It is a Christian book but it is very subtle. 

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