🤠👶🏻👶🏻💗 A Rancher to Trust 💗👶🏻👶🏻🤠 (2019) - Book Review
MY REVIEW
Series: Pine Valley (Book #4)
Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Love Inspired; Original Edition
(December 17, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1335487921
ISBN-13: 978-1335487926
“Searching for
forgiveness…and a future.
Suddenly a husband…and a father?This bachelor is ready to claim his instant family.
After learning his ex-wife isn’t so ex after all, rebel turned rancher Dan Whitlock
is determined to prove he’s a changed man…but Bailey Quinn is just as set on
finally ending their marriage. When tragedy makes Dan the guardian of little
orphaned twins, he and Bailey are drawn back together. But can she forgive the past and open her heart
to the family she’s always wanted?”Suddenly a husband…and a father?This bachelor is ready to claim his instant family.
Once again, a very special thank you to the author Laurel Blount and JustRead tours. I was provided a complimentary review copy. A positive review was not required or requested. All words and thoughts are my own.
I was introduced to the author and the series
thanks to JustRead publicity tours when I reviewed “Hometown Hope” – the third book in this series.
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I later obtained “A Family for the Farmer” which is where Bailey Quinn makes her
appearance and where we meet Abel Witlock and Emily Elliott. And, from what
Santa’s elves told me, “A Baby for the
Minister” is set to arrive in my stocking on Christmas Day.
Anyway …
This visit to Pine Valley involves Bailey Quinn
who is still married to Dan Whitlock, despite them having not seen each other
in about a decade.
She’s changed since their elopement which
didn’t last long, and he’s had a long road ahead of him – finding sobriety
namely one of them. He’s also changed from the man who he used to be. He is not the same man who left her all those years ago.
Now, he’s looking to mend some busted fences
and Bailey is looking to divorce him so she can move on with her life and mend different fences.
Dan wants to work things out, something Bailey
is against. That is until Dan’s life is changed by a tragedy that leaves him
the guardian of twin babies.
But, when Bailey changes her mind – Dan is
skeptical as to why.
And, while Bailey thinks she knows what she wants,
and what she doesn’t want – she learns God has his own plan. She also finds that some people cannot find the good in others.
As always, the Harlequin books have happy endings.
The Love Inspired series promises uplifting, inspirational romance with new
beginnings. These are also Christian themed, cleaner reads. This didn’t fail to
deliver at all.
Beautiful, sad, devastating, endearing, hopeful,
and inspirational – this novel didn’t disappoint. The author is right – get the
tissues. This one gets you in the “feels”. Forgiveness and redemption themes
are abundant.
Readers will be happy to see returning characters
(if only in passing) such as:
Natalie Davis-Stone & Jacob Stone (A Baby for the Minister)
Anna Delaney-Bradley & Hoyt Bradley (Hometown Hope)
I really enjoyed this book and can’t
wait to see if the author returns to Pine Valley or if she starts something
else.
This is an enjoyable stand-alone read.
You do not have to read the others in the series, but I think it would be best
enjoyed if read along with the other books.
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Goodreads
5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ –
Bookbub
The other “Pine Valley” books can be found online on Harlequin’s website, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or even eBay.
You can also order them on the author’s website
as well: https://laurelblountbooks.com/books/
OTHER
BOOKS IN THE PINE VALLEY SERIES:
Series: Pine Valley (Book #1)
Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Love Inspired; Original edition (September 20, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373719868
ISBN-13: 978-0373719860
Click Picture for Purchase InformationHe has three months to fight for a lifetime with the family he loves.
Maggie Award Winner, Carol Finalist, Holt Medallion Finalist
“When she inherits her grandmother's farm, Emily Elliott must return to the small town she thought she'd permanently escaped. The citified single mom of twins must live on Goosefeather Farm for the summer…or lose it to neighbor and childhood friend Abel Whitlock. It's Abel's chance to own the land he's always wanted, but he won't do it at the expense of the girl he's never forgotten—or her adorable twins. Instead, Abel will show Emily how to take care of the farm and its wayward animals. He has three months to fight for a lifetime with the family he loves.”
Series: Pine Valley (Book #2)
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Love Inspired Larger Print; Original edition (August 21, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 133542833X
ISBN-13: 978-1335428332
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“A minister with a heart of gold…and a pregnant bride with no groom!
2019 Maggie Award Finalist
“Jilted at the altar, Natalie Davis has no one she can turn to—until Jacob Stone steps in. The single minister’s drawn to the beautiful mommy-to-be and wants to help…even if it goes against his congregation’s wishes and could cost him his job. But when she refuses to accept charity, can he convince her she’s more than a ministry project?”
Series: Pine Valley (Book #3)
Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Love Inspired; Original edition (June 18, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1335479309
ISBN-13: 978-1335479303
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In the three years since her mother’s death, widower Hoyt Bradley’s daughter, Jess, hasn’t spoken—until she suddenly begs him to save her favorite bookstore from closing. Hoyt is desperate to hear his daughter’s voice again, but he and the bookstore’s pretty owner, Anna Delaney, share a less-than-friendly past. Working together is complicated enough…but can they avoid falling in love?”
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:
Laurel Blount lives on a small farm in middle
Georgia with her husband, their four children, and an assortment of very
spoiled animals. She divides her time between farm chores, homeschooling, and
writing. She’s busy, but she’s never bored!
Laurel writes inspirational contemporary
romance, and A Rancher to Trust is her fourth title for Harlequin’s Love
Inspired. She’s the recipient of the Georgia Romance Writers Maggie Award for
Excellence and has been a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writer’s
Carol Award, the Holt Medallion, and the New England Reader’s Choice Award.
She’s represented by Jessica Alvarez of Bookends Literary Agency.
Whenever she’s not working, you can find Laurel
with a cup of tea at her elbow, a cat in her lap, and a good book in her hand.
She can be found on the following social media networks:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurelblountbooks/
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