Blurb
Jake Matheson loves everything about ranching the Double-Bar-K, except for his fathers controlling nature. Its bad enough the old man wont step down and let him run things his own way. Now Holt has demanded that Jake find a wife—in the next thirty days. Jake knows just the woman he wants–Hannah Ashton–but they havent even gone on a date, let alone been together long enough for him to propose. Hell have to work fast to secure her hand in marriage before his time is up.
Hannah Ashton loves the fifteen hundred pound bison she rescued from being the object of a trophy hunt. Shes grateful for Gladyss temporary home on the Double Bar K—and for the chance it gives her to see Jake on a daily basis. But now Holt Matheson is threatening to kick Gladys off the ranch—or eat her!—unless Hannah spends fourteen consecutive nights with Jake. What they get up to together is their business, but if Hannah misses a night, its bye-bye bison.
Jake cant believe Hannah has agreed to move into his cabin, but now his brother Ned is stirring up trouble, trying to break them up before he can propose. Hannahs beginning to think itll be hard to leave the ranch when her fourteen nights are over—even if shes heading to veterinary school. Shes falling for Jake–hard–but Jake wants a traditional wife, not a career woman.
Will a pregnancy scare unite Jake and Hannah in a common goal? Or will it drive them apart for good?
Review
In book six in the Cowboys of Chance Creek series, Hannah Ashton needs someplace to stash the bison shed rescued from certain death. Luckily, the man she secretly longs for offers to let her keep Gladys, the bison, on his family ranch.
Jake Matheson lost his chance with Hannah a few months back due to him flirting with another woman, but now, Hannah is visiting his ranch all the time in order to see Gladys. Then his dad gives him an ultimatum—get married within a month or leave the ranch forever. Since he already wants Hannah, he sets off to marry her, expecting her to fall in line with his life plans. Too bad for him, she has plans of her own.
I liked Hannah and Jake, but I couldnt stand the way they let his father, his brother Ned, and even his mother manipulate them. —– SPOILERS —– Holt, his dad, forced Hannah to become Jakes maid (so shed forget about going back to school and be a housewife as a woman should) and to share Jakes bed, or hed kill and eat Gladys. Ned is so jealous of Jake that he tries to come between Jake and Hannah. Lisa, his mother, is so dang sweet that no one can tell her no despite how badly theyre hurting inside, and shes so blind to the way her husband treats his sons and the women theyre with.
Other than these members of the Matheson family, I loved most of the other characters in the series, especially the newcomers Mia and Fila, who will be paired with the remaining Matheson brothers. I hope Ms. Seton will find a way to turn Ned into a sympathetic character in his own book.
Overall, this is a good book, but be warned if you dont like it when the main characters are stuck under somebodys else thumb for the majority of the story.
3 Stars
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