About the Book:
At Love’s Bidding (Bethany
House, December 2015)
She sells
priceless antiques. He sells livestock by the pound. Is he really the man to
make a bid for her heart?
After helping
her grandfather at their Boston auction house, Miranda Wimplegate discovers
she's accidentally sold a powerful family's prized portrait to an anonymous
bidder. Desperate to appease the people who could ruin them forever, they track
it to the Missouri Ozarks and make an outlandish offer to buy the local auction
house and all its holdings before the painting can move again.
Upon crossing
the country, however, Miranda and her grandfather discover their new auction
house doesn't deal in fine antiques, but in livestock. And its frustratingly handsome
manager, Wyatt Ballentine, is annoyed to discover his fussy new bosses don't
know a thing about the business he's single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with
more heads of cattle than they can count---but no mysterious painting---Miranda
and Wyatt form an unlikely but charged partnership to try and prevent a bad
situation from getting worse.
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About the
Author:
Regina
Jennings is a graduate
of Oklahoma Baptist University with a degree in English and a history minor.
She is the author of A Most Inconvenient Marriage, Sixty Acres and a
Bride, and Caught in the Middle, and contributed a novella to A
Match Made in Texas. Regina has worked at the Mustang News and First
Baptist Church of Mustang, along with time at the Oklahoma National Stockyards
and various livestock shows. She now lives outside Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
with her husband and four children.
Margie’s Comments: What better way to start the New Year than with a
Regina Jennings historical romance! I was first attracted to the book when I
read that a good portion of the book was set in the Missouri Ozarks—where I
live. The premise of the book (in the story blurb) also intrigued me. Auctions
are a big deal in the Ozarks, even today, nearly 150 years after At Love’s Bidding was set.
And I wasn’t
disappointed at all. At Love’s Bidding
is a fun read, full of quirky yet lovable characters and some not-so-loveable
characters. We see Miranda in the first chapter as a young woman who wants to
help those less fortunate than herself, shy, unsure of herself, and yet showing
a “violent streak” when the underdog is threatened. And we meet Wyatt at his
“worst,” but then we’re totally drawn in when we see what has provoked him. The
story takes a hilarious turn when Miranda and her grandfather realize they have
bought a livestock auction house. There are several laugh out loud moments when
they try to make their first sale more like their elegant antiques auction
house in Boston, even with their smelly wares. The romance between Wyatt and
Miranda is done well, fun to follow, and comes to a satisfying conclusion.
If you’re
looking for a good book to read at the beginning of a new year, you won’t be
disappointed with At Love’s Bidding.
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