Fire
and Ice (Wild at Heart) by Mary
Connealy
Author Mary Connealy is an entertaining storyteller who
tickles your funny bone while she touches your heart. “Fire and Ice”, Book
Three, in her “Wild at Heart” series features the oldest Wilde sister, Bailey. Content
to let folks think she’s a man and keep their distance, Bailey Wilde cares for
her younger sisters and manages their homestead. However, after her sisters
marry and leave for homes of their, the loneliness of the empty nest begins to
wear on Bailey. Maybe that’s why she succumbs to the crazy scheme of her
troublesome neighbor, Gage Coulter. Determined to regain his access rights to
rich grazing land after Bailey Wilde claimed a homestead spread that cut him
off, Gage continues to needle and harass Bailey into giving him back his right
of way. Due to Bailey’s skill with a rifle, Gage has never gotten close enough
to find out that Bailey is a woman. With her short hair and men’s clothes, he’s
always thought she was a man. Stunned though he is when he finds out the truth,
he recovers enough to offer his latest threat: he’ll dynamite his way through
to the access land. Later he offers to buy half her herd and share the rich
grass lands. He also tells her that wants to continue to acquire more and more
land and build his herd. When Gage learns that his mother--his very controlling
mother--plans to visit, he makes Bailey another urgent proposal of a different
kind: he needs a wife, and he needs one fast. He had already told his mother
some time back that he was married, and now that she was due to arrive at any
moment, he had to produce a wife so that his mother would see that he was
settled. Maybe then, she’d leave him be—just maybe. The unbearable loneliness
of her solitary existence in her cabin spurs her to accept his proposal. When
Bailey meets his mother, though, she learns the truest meaning of unbearable,
and its name is “Ma”. As Gage and Bailey get to know each other, a definite
fondness and attraction grows between them, but they have many issues to
overcome before the seeing the light of true happiness. Will faith,
forgiveness, and forbearance find their way into the hearts and minds of this
headstrong man and woman? Will going forward with caring compromise bring them
a lifetime of love and joy? Author Mary Connealy has a most delightful way with
inspirational historical romance.
Review Copy Gratis Bethany House Books
Mary Connealy
Mary Connealy writes romantic comedy...with cowboys.
She is a Carol Award winner, and a Rita, Christy and
Inspirational Reader's Choice finalist. She is the author of bestselling
Kincaid Brides Series: Out of Control, In Too Deep, Over the Edge. The Trouble
in Texas
Series; Swept Away, Fired Up, Stuck Together. The Wild at Heart Series; Tried
and True, Now and Forever, Fire and Ice. Her work also includes Lassoed in
Texas Trilogy, Montana Marriages Trilogy and Sophie's Daughters Trilogy. And
Novella collections; A Bride for All Seasons, Four Weddings and a Kiss, A Match
Made in Texas, Hope for the Holidays Contemporary Collection, Hope for the
Holidays Historical Collection, With this Kiss Contemporary Collection, With
this Kiss Historical Collection and many more books.Under the pen name Mary
Nealy, she also wrote Ten Plagues--a romantic thriller, and The Historical
Society Murders--three cozy mysteries. Mary is married to a Nebraska rancher and has four grown
daughters and a small bevy of spectacular grandchildren.
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