ISBN: 9780593335574
Editorial: Berkley
Autor: Barry, Amy
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 352
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride.Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers—plus little Junebug—they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death of cleaning, cooking, and mending for her big brothers, so she places an ad in The Matrimonial News to get them hitched.After Maddy Mooney emigrated from Ireland, she found employment with an eccentric but poor widow. When her mistress decides to answer an ad for a mail-order bride, Maddy is dragged along for the ride to Montana. But en route to the West, Maddy is suddenly abandoned and left to assume the widow's name, position, and matrimonial prospects….With no other recourse in the wilderness, Maddy must convince Kit she’s the wife he never knew he needed.Review"A sweet, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy set in the wilds of Montana, Kit McBride Gets a Wife will have readers smiling from ear to ear and set their hearts all aflutter. Maddy Mooney is a plucky, endearing heroine, and Kit McBride is the ideal frontiersman hero. With a cast of delightful secondary characters, including the irrepressible younger sister, Junebug, this charming romance is guaranteed a place on your keeper shelf.”—Elizabeth Everett, author of A Perfect Equation“Heartfelt, humorous, and sweetly romantic, Kit McBride Gets a Wife kept me smiling to the last page.”—Mimi Matthews, USA Today bestselling author of The Siren of Sussex“This first installment in a planned series from will leave fans ready for a return trip to Buck’s Creek.”—Library Journal (starred review)“Barry’s snappy prose and standout scene setting make Buck’s Creek a destination readers will want to return to.”—Publishers WeeklyAbout the AuthorAmy Barry writes sweeping historical stories about love. She's fascinated with the landscapes of the American West and their complex long history, and she's even more fascinated with people in all their weird tangled glory. Amy also writes under the names Amy T Matthews and Tess LeSue, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University in Australia.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.OneBuck's Creek, Montana, 1886Well, spit. How was Junebug to know flour was flammable? It was flour. You cooked the stuff, for Pete's sake. It wasn't gunpowder. Only somehow that great big sack of flour had blown the belly out of the cookhouse, she marveled as she watched her older brothers try to save the outbuilding."You could have killed yourself!" Morgan raged as he threw buckets of creek water at the snapping flames.She was rather singed. And her rear end sure did hurt from where she'd landed in the woodpile. But she was fine. And what a thing to see. All that flour floating about in the air and then wham, no cookhouse."You ought to be tarred and feathered for this," Beau grumped, sloshing water on Junebug's bare feet as he jogged up from the creek."Well, spit," Junebug said, "it ain't like I set fire to the cookhouse on purpose. Not this time or the last time." If this was anyone's fault, it was Morgan's. He'd been the one to dump that great big sack of flour in front of her and shut her up in the cookhouse to bake, rather than let her go fishing. If it had been up to her, she'd be stretched out in the meadow, pulling a few fat bull trout from the creek, and their cookhouse would still be standing. But no, Morgan had to go force her into an apron and lock her in the dark little hut for the afternoon. If anyone was to blame for this, it was definitely him. Not that she was game to tell him that yet; she'd wait till he cooled off some. She'd at least wait until the fire was out. Morgan was worse than a grizzly coming out of hibernation when he was in a mood. And he was pretty much always i
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