At Love’s Bidding
December 31st, 2015. Filed under: This & That.At Love’s Bidding
By Regina Jennings
She sells priceless antiques. He sells livestock by the pound. Is he really the man to make a bid for her heart?
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 people who could ruin them forever, they track it to the Missouri Ozarks and make an outlandish offer to buy the local auction house and all its holdings before the painting can move again.
Upon crossing the country, however, Miranda and her grandfather discover their new auction house doesn’t deal in fine antiques, but in livestock. And its frustratingly handsome manager, Wyatt Ballentine, is annoyed to discover his fussy new bosses don’t know a thing about the business he’s single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with more heads of cattle than they can count—but no mysterious painting—Miranda and Wyatt form an unlikely but charged partnership to try and prevent a bad situation from getting worse.
ISLAND BREEZES
Talk about a culture clash! The difference between antique auctions and cattle auctions is huge. So is the lifestyle each represents.
Coming from Boston and being confronted by the rustic west was a shock to Miranda and her grandfather. They struggled to adapt as they searched for a valuable painting that had gone astray.
It appears that both the recovery of the painting and a blooming relationship are doomed. Miranda and her grandfather return back home empty handed. Can they possibly turn things around?
Thank you, Ms Jennings, for this book with such a delightful twist.
***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***
Regina Jennings is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University with a degree in English and a history minor. She is the author of A Most Inconvenient Marriage, Sixty Acres and a Bride, and Caught in the Middle, and contributed a novella to A Match Made in Texas. Regina 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, Oklahoma, with her husband and four children. You can visit her website here.
January 25th, 2016 at 13:29
Sounds like a good book to add to my TBR pile. Thanks for the honest and thoughtful review. Hope you have a great week!
Heather
http://www.ladiesindefiance.com
January 26th, 2016 at 18:02
It is indeed a good one to add to your pile. I’m looking forward to reading more books by Ms Jennings.