Marrying Off Morgan McBride
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4.7 • 10 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
The McBride brothers are in for a matrimonial surprise when an enterprising woman answers their little sister's mail order bride advertisement in this laugh-out-loud historical romance.
As the oldest of the McBride siblings, Morgan had to be protector and shepherd since Ma died and Pa ran off. It hasn't always been easy, especially when his heart longs to roam on the trail. But now that his brother Kit is married and settled, the time is right for Morgan to leave Buck's Creek. Little does he know that his hellcat of a little sister Junebug is dead set on keeping him at home and getting more help around the house – all with one honest advertisement in The Matrimonial News.
Epiphany Hopgood has always had a gift for doing the exact wrong thing. She’s too tall, too loud, too opinionated, and too contrary for her family and community. Staring down the barrel of spinsterhood, she and her grandmother answer a seemingly straightforward ad for a bride.
But when Pip shows up to Buck’s Creek, she finds that Morgan McBride is not the husband she expected. In fact, he doesn’t even want to be a husband. But maybe there’s a way to make everyone happy out on the Montana frontier…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Matchmaking Junebug McBride is at it again in Barry's charming return to small-town Buck's Creek, Mont. (after Kit McBride Gets a Wife). In 1887, Junebug is tired of being cook and housekeeper to her four older brothers and places ads on their behalf in the Matrimonial News—without their knowledge. She hopes finding a mail-order bride for the eldest, Morgan, will keep him from leaving town. The perennially unlucky-in-love Epiphany "Pip" Hopgood answers Junebug's ad, leaving small-town Nebraska behind for Montana and an exciting new life (with her firecracker of a grandmother in tow). Morgan, a cowboy who dropped everything to raise his younger siblings after their mother's death, is eager to hit the trail again and is none too happy to deal with a bold, beautiful woman who believes herself to be his fiancée—but he also can't deny his attraction to Pip. Barry loads the entertaining plot with convincing twists and turns, genuine laugh-out-loud moments, and spitfire characters. Pip's grandmother, Granny Colfax, especially steals the show. Readers will hope for a quick return to Buck's Creek.
