Betting the Rainbow
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
"Thomas knocks it out of the park again" --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas returns to the town of Harmony, Texas, where life has a way of making better plans than anyone ever imagined…
Sisters Abby and Dusti Delaney have spent their entire lives on Rainbow Lane, but they dream of something bigger. So when a poker tournament comes to town, Dusti is determined to win enough money to leave. Enlisting expert Kieron O’Brian to teach her the game, sparks begin to fly as they play their hands. But Kieron refuses to stand in the way of her dream, even if it means losing her forever...
After a year of traveling, Ronny Logan is settling into a home on Rainbow Lane, but that’s all the settling she’ll be doing. Ronny refuses to fall for anyone, regardless of the chemistry she has with her neighbor Austin Hawk. Yet something undeniable begins to grow between the two loners—if only they can let their barriers fall and open their hearts...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thomas knocks it out of the park again with her seventh contemporary set in Harmony, Tex. (after Can't Stop Believing). Ronny Logan and Austin Hawk are looking for peace out by Rainbow Lane. They both have reasons to crave solitude he's recovering from injury, she from grief and a year's travel so they're surprised to enjoy each other's company. Ronny also becomes friends with neighbors Dusti and Abby Delaney, sisters who are counting on a poker tournament to make their dreams come true. As Dusti gets poker lessons from flirtatious Kieran O'Toole, tournament organizer Reagan Truman waits for rodeo rider Noah McAllen, her longtime love interest, to "grow up and man up." Thomas is a master at creating damaged yet appealing characters, and their expressions of love as siblings, as friends, as partners are intense and beautiful. Their paths to happiness are interwoven in an intricate tapestry with the tournament as backdrop, combining in an epic tale of the kind of love that lasts forever.
