Publisher: HQN
Published: January
27, 2015
ISBN: 978-0373778928
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Print
Obtained via: Publicist
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina Gina@loveromancesandmorereviews.com
FIVE HEARTS
Nine years ago Melody Nolan proposed
marriage to Spencer Hogan. Spence told
her no – and with good reason. The
resident playboy sheriff of Bliss County didn’t think Melody was old enough to
know her heart and mind and ready for marriage.
Devastated Melody moved on with her life and closed off her heart.
But she wasn’t quite alone. Along with her friends Hadleigh and Bex she
grew up a bit more and launched her own spectacular jewellery business. At the same time Hadleigh and Bex developed
their own businesses. Successful in
their own rights not long ago the three women sat down and looked at what was
missing in their lives. It turned out it
was one thing—husbands. They wanted to meet
and fall in love with that forever, once in a lifetime love. Hadleigh was the first to meet the terms of
what they called The Marriage Pact when she walked down the aisle with her one
true love, Tripp Galloway.
Melody may not have gotten over Spence and
his rejection, but she did move on with her life. That was, until, Hadleigh’s wedding. Thrown together with the man she never really
stopped loving she kept on keeping on, keeping a smile on her face and her
heart secure against getting too close to Spence. Spence, on the other hand, isn’t quite the
ladies man the town makes him out to be.
In fact he never got over Melody and the main reason he didn’t want to
go to the after party was not wanting to run into her. But rather than give the appearance of just
not caring about his friends at all, Spence wandered in, had a token drink and
was ready to leave. There, in the parking
lot he saw Melody looking lost and forlorn.
Well maybe not that lost—but she certainly had a bit of a problem
getting her car out of the crowded parking lot.
Without a second thought he did what any self-respecting cowboy would do…strode
over to Melody, tossed her over his shoulder and took her home.
Her home.
And she was spitting mad. So mad
that the next morning she figured she really needed to apologize to her cowboy
sheriff for her actions. Once at his
house, alone with the man she never got over, they just may have found out true
love just cannot be denied.
Just when I think I’ve read Linda Lael
Miller’s absolute best her next book comes out and I have to rethink “best”. That’s what happened with her latest, THE MARRIAGE CHARM. Not to diminish each really super read that came
before, but this one really stands out.
Miller is just a fabulous storyteller with some of the best
characters. They are people like you and
I—with heartaches, hopes and dreams.
Rather than resorting to gratuitous drama, their stories are told in a heart-warming,
friend next door manner. With Hadleigh,
Bex and Melody you feel like you are in the room with them, making and keeping the
marriage pact with them.
In THE
MARRIAGE CHARM I really liked how she handled Spence’s steps winning Melody
back. He’s got some wonderful vulnerability
to him—protective, caring and there is a very sweet side of him that comes out
only when you’re watching very closely.
He knows his own mind and takes the steps necessary to getting what he
wants most in life.
I got a kick out of Miller’s descriptions
of the animals in the story—the dogs’ antics and how they interacted with new
character, Tate’s children’s reactions to them.
THE MARRIAGE
CHARM is book 2 of Miller’s Brides of Bliss
County series. You do not have to have
read book 1, THE MARRIAGE PACT to
totally enjoy book 2 – but if you want two great reads, do pick them both up.
This is an objective review and an endorsement of this
book.
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