Posted: June 25, 2013
All Jamie Lassiter wants is to marry his best friend’s sister and settle down for the rest of his life in Chance Creek. He’s saved his money, bought into the Cruz Guest Ranch and he’s ready for that wedding, but Claire Cruz is nowhere to be found.Claire’s too busy leaving Montana behind to care about cowboys or their wedding plans. She’s got plans of her own – a trip around the world. She’ll go as soon as she buys her tickets and she doesn’t care if she ever sees Chance Creek again.
Desperate to change Claire’s mind, Jamie proposes a bet: give him six weeks to convince her to marry him. If he can’t, he’ll pay for her round-the-world tickets himself.
Claire can wait six weeks if it means free tickets and a chance to get a little revenge on a man who once broke her heart. She’s got only one stipulation: Jamie can’t touch or flirt with her – or any other woman – while the bet is on.
Now Jamie’s on the run from a bevy of cowboy-groupie ranch guests, and Claire’s learning she cares about the ranch – and Jamie – more than she dreamed possible.
Maybe it’s time to lose that bet.
As long as Jamie loses it first.
MY REVIEW:
This was a fun is going story. All the
characters were enjoyable and you could become fully invested in each of them
for the most part. This story revolved for the most part Claire and Jamie and
their relationship or non-relationship. These two characters grew up together
on Claire's family ranch with her younger brother Ethan who Jamie is friends
with. It turns out that Jamie did not have a good relationship with his own parents
and spent a lot of time at their home until he finally just moved there and got
a job there too. Claire's father even gave him the little cabin that was on the
property since he loved the land, horses and ranch in general, her dad just
loved him hanging around. All the time he was around Claire he loved everything
about her they could talk and she loved the horses and the ranch as much as he
did. So, he set his mind on one day marrying her by saving his money and
planning for their future. With on minor glitch, he may have forgotten to tell
Clair. He did however tell his other friends like Rob, Cab, Luke, etc... They
just ended up playing cat and mouse. When Claire left home due to a fight she
had with her mother never to return home except for short visits made Jamie
question himself and where their future was headed. Yet, when Ethan was getting
married and Clair came home to help out just months after her parent’s death
(car accident) her life takes a terrible detour and a craziness she or I never
saw coming and a lot of it was funny but most of the hidden meaning was sad. If
you are a daughter you will feel her pain because we have all been there at
least once. Mother and daughter relationship are questionable. There are some
very unanswered questions that left me hanging that I did not like. Like what
did happen to all the money from her parents account? Do they finally get
married? Mainly where is the epilogue? I would give this book a 3.75 stars here
is why... Claire's whining for one thing got to be monotonous, no epilogue, and
I wanted more. LOL
Courtesy of NetGalley.com
Courtesy of NetGalley.com
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