This was a syrupy sweet read, it was a actually too sweet for me. I also do not consider it a standalone, they constantly talk about the others, and I am not interested in reading about them. This about a bride Eve, who when learns that her fiances has an ulterior motive for marrying her, runs away. She hides in a pick up truck, because she has nothing on her. When Connor discovers her, instead of just coming clean like an adult, she feigns amesia, you can get the gist. Not a bad story, just not for me, but not deserving of a two star.

A light romance read! Eve and Conner were both struggling with the possibilities, but Eve worked hard to find herself. Lots of grit for a city girl. And Conner was hard working but still leery of trusting Eve.

I have loved the McCall Brothers series, full of alpha men and the women who tame them plus a strong patriarch in Gramps… yeah, it doesn’t get much better than this type of romance in my humble opinion. Now it’s Connor’s turn and his lady is certainly one puzzle to figure out.

Liz, or as we shall know her, Eve, makes a shocking discover on her wedding day, fortunately before the I do part. A decision that sends her on the run hidden away in a pickup truck. What’s a bride on the run to do when faced with a handsome, curious cowboy… claim amnesia perhaps?

Connor isn’t really buying Eve’s supposed situation. But when she keeps up the lie, can get down and dirty like any cowgirl he ever knew, well, who is he to burst her hiding out bubble. In spite of their growing attraction Eve continues to hold back the truth. Until one precious man’s life is at stake, then Eve will do anything to make certain Gramps gets help fast. Even if it means facing the people she’s run away from.

I enjoyed The Cowboy’s Runaway Bride so very much. Eve had some hard lessons to face. We can’t change the family we have, and at some point we have to give up on pleasing them and start living our own lives.

While all the threads get wrapped up nicely, we also will have a Christmas romance to look forward to. Can’t wait.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*

3.5 stars- This is a tale of family, finding yourself and loving what is in front of you. The first meet has a unique feel with first a catching of a veil, seeing the hand of the bride when giving it back and then discovering the bride in the bed of a truck on its way to a ranch full of wonderful characters besides the love interest..
This folks tale is part of a series but held its own if you hadn't read the others.

The third book in this series and though I liked the banter better in the last book, this one was good as well. Elizabeth Barrington is getting married in about a half hour when her Aunt comes in and talks to her about leaving on another road trip when she declines, and asks if he is the one? She suggests that she go talk to him. That is when her life is changed because she hears him talking to someone about almost being there with getting the prize. Frist I marry the daughter then I will get her father to indorse our new drug it is what I do close the deal. She panics and leaves through an open window and ends up in the back of an old pickup truck. Not knowing that the man driving the driving the truck is the same cowboy that saved her mother veil. When she is discovered by Connor McCall and grandpa, let’s not forget sweet potato. Elizabeth comes up with amnesia. The grand pa comes up with her going with Connor out to the back of the ranch cabin for the week. Though he does not want to take her he does. She surprises him by helping and even riding a horse. He still thinks that she is lying about who she is and by the time they are back at the main house everything comes to a head when grandpas had a heart attack and she calls in a helicopter and her father by using her full given name. Now after he is feeling better is the time for her and Connor to have their talk or make up. The ending of this story is good along with the supporting characters. Overall a good book.

A fast and easy read, "The Cowboy's Runaway Bride" is about a city girl meeting a country boy and finding that they share so many things in common which are enough for them to fall in love.

But, it is not easy because the things that separate them, that is, the city and the country line might be too wide to bridge, so their happily ever after is not guaranteed. In fact, they have to work for it.

Elizabeth Eve Barrington just wanted her family to be happy. Connor McCall wants the same thing for his family. Both of them share this noble goal, but what if these goals are at a crossroads. Eve and Connor have to decide if their love is worth it.

"The Cowboy's Runaway Bride" is Rated T for Teens due to some adult situations.

This is a charming story involving two seemingly polar opposites pulled together by a strong magnetic pull and fighting it all along the way. It’s written so well that one can feel the strength of dividing forces that must be broken if the relationship is to happen.
In a nutshell, Lizzie learns a horrible truth about her fiancé just moments before her wedding. Taking strength and a cue from her aunt, Lizzie bolts and hides under a tarp in Connor McCall’s truck bed. Connor is on the way back to Honor, TX, his home. Enter the lovable Gramps, matchmaker in disguise, and Connor and Lizzie are thrown together for five days on the range where love and denial flourish.

The Cowboy’s Runaway Bride by Laurie LeClaire, the third book in her McCall Brothers series is a sweet story about finding love, friendship, family and trust. Elizabeth Eve Barrington is getting married only to help create harmony in her family, not because she loves the groom. On her escape out of the church she overhears him telling his boss how he is marrying her for a trophy wife and will get her cardiologist father to endorse a questionable heart medicine after the marriage. Eve, as she goes by now, ran and hid in a parked pick-up truck. Connor McCall is not ready for love, worried more about saving the family ranch and Gramps. When Conn saves a runaway veil and returns it to the bride, he has no idea how that action will affect his future, let alone the electric shock he feels when their hands touch. Out of all the trucks Eve could choose, she picked Connor’s and ends up at the McCall ranch. Eve and Conn share an attraction with lots of chemistry, but can they trust one another with the truth.

I loved reading this book and had trouble putting this book down, reading it in one day. I laughed, I worried, I cried, and I hoped while I read this story. Ms. LeClaire is a wonderful storyteller who drew me in and did not let go until I read the last page. I definitely recommend this book to other readers.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.

When Eve learns of her fiancés ulterior motive behind marrying her, she runs away from the Church without telling anyone. With no money and no where to go, she hides in the back of a pick up truck.
Connor and his grandad are in Dallas to pick up some parts, what they don't realize is that along with the parts they have also picked up a hitchhiker.
When Eve gets discovered, she feigns amnesia, and they Connor and his grandpa have their doubts, they take her home with them.
The cowboys Runaway Bride was a sweet romance. Conner is the perfect knight in shinning armor. I enjoyed the fact that family is important to both of them. A light hearted, fun read.

There is so much about The Cowboy's Runaway Bride by Laurie LeClair that I adored. It is a sweet, heartwarming story. I appreciated even the quirky circled ending. The first two McCall Brother’s stories were very good but this one is great.

One main reason is that Gramps has a major role, along with his sidekick Sweet Potato. He will always be my favorite McCall man! There are many other reasons too. The entire family rallies around Connor and Eve, even determined-to-find-out-who-Eve-is Sheriff Caleb. Then the other supporting characters of Miss Peaches, Miss Clementine and Aunt Clara added to the charm of this story. The theme of never giving up on family but it is a hard one to practice at times. I was thrilled that there was finally a solution to saving the ranch!!

These all helped to make the story amazing but it is Connor and Lizzie/Eve that are such incredible characters that made this story a true keeper. I loved seeing Eve grow into her own with Connor’s support. I think I was as surprised as she was to see her become a true cowgirl. She seemed to have been lost for most of her life desperate for love. Then Connor is an awesome man, just seeing him with his grandfather told you what kind of person he is; loyal, considerate, honest, hardworking and patience. Great characters in a great story.

Such a fun read. The last thing Connor McCall was expecting to find in the back of his pickup truck on the way home from Dallas was a runaway bride with amnesia. Eve (Elizabeth) is running away from the biggest mistake that she was about to make, marrying the wrong man. Connor brings her home to the ranch with his other brothers and gramps. While Connor trying to solve, who this mystery woman is a passion flares up between him and Eve.

Love the McCall brothers, so happy they all ended up with their happily ever afters. Gramps is one of a kind, love him. Of course we can't forget Miss Peaches and Miss Clementine, they always have something to say. I'm sad to say goodby to the McCalls. I highly recommend this book along with the rest of this series!

Ms. LeClair has graced my favorites shelf since I discovered her four years ago. Her heroes are every little girls fantasy and her heroines are what ever women hopes to be. HAPPY! She makes it okay for the adult we've all become to escape into the child that lives inside. With a realistically modern design her characters remind of innocence. A time where life was easy and anything seemed possible. When the heart speaks everyone listens. With The Cowboy's Runaway Bride the heart whisper strikes again.

Such a fun read!! Getting himself and his Gramps out of Dallas and back home to Honor is all that's on Connor McCall's mind. So he hops in his pickup and points it towards home. Discovering a runaway bride in the back of his pickup was to say the least is a surprise. The fact that she's the same bride he saw earlier going to her wedding even more surprising. Her claiming to have amnesia, unbelievable! This is just the start of the fun and good times to come. I definitely recommend this one.

Despite cold feet Elizabeth Barrington was going to go through with the marriage, but followed her Aunt Clara's advice and snuck over to talk to her groom-to-be first. Dumbstruck by what she overheard, she decided to run out on the wedding.
Desperate to get away, tiring and suffering the stares of the people she passed, she decided to duck into the bed of a truck parked in a restaurant lot. As she decided it was safe to get out, the owners came back and drove away.
Finding the bride in the truck bed on their way home was a great shock to Connor and Left McCall, and it was even more so when the bride claimed amnesia.
This sweet western romantic tale is well told and makes you want to root for the run away bride and Connor. The family values embraced by the McCalls are ones many long to have.
I requested and was granted an ARC of this sweet uplifting book.

When Dallas society bride Elizabeth Eve Barrington discovers her intended’s financial ulterior motives for marriage, she hightails it out of the church in her wedding gown and hops in the back of a parked and beat-up pickup truck.

Happy to leave the big city, sexy cowboy Connor McCall jumps in his truck, revs up his engine, and then heads home to Honor, Texas with the goal of saving his family's failing ranch. Hours later and miles down country roads, Connor discovers the stowaway bride, and he’s pretty sure she’s feigning amnesia.

What’s a cowboy to do? Cowboy up, of course. He takes Eve home, determined to solve her mystery. What he discovers is a lot of smoke–and where there's smoke, there's fire, with the heat generating between them hot enough to burn. Will Connor be damned if he falls for the beautiful runaway bride or will he be damned if he doesn’t?

This is my first time reading this author and this is part of the series. It looked like there were two previous books. Did I feel lost reading only this book. Not really. In fact the other books sounded more interesting than this one.

I felt the writing was okay and the plot was okay and the characters kinda bored me. I hate to say that. Nothing was really terrible about this story. It just lacked passion and it just did not keep me interested. Eve/Elizabeth is the runaway bride and she has a strange family lets say. She is about to get married when she learns her husband to be is marrying her so her father can endorse a drug his comany sells and so she runs away.

I just did not feel her dire need to run away and then she pretends to lose her memory, the whole thing seemed very farce like and it just got kinda boring. It did not keep my interest. The whole thing was just so unbelievable that I had a tough time being interested and then I just felt bored.

Nothing majorly is wrong with the story or the writing, it just was not a story I got into and I felt bored.

Okay, that was a really nice read! I was a bit annoyed with our bride-to-(not)-be for the manner in which she dealt with her situation (Seriously? Amnesia?) but it was great to see her find her way and herself, to see her learn to stand up for the things that are important to her and I loved her grit when she did that. She never gave up, no matter what happened, she did what had to be done and it was easy to see, how such a tough guy like Conner McCall could fall for a girl like her.
Running away may not have been the most mature reaction (but I must admit that it is understandable) but who would have thought that so much good could come of it?

All her life, since her mother died when she was still young, Liz has been fighting to unite her family and to fit in, to live up to her father's expectations. No easy thing with a man like that, actually, which is also the reason why her whole family is torn apart. Her step-brothers have long since given up on her father, their stepfather but Liz still hopes that one day they will all get along.
With her fiancé turning out to be a callous, profit-seeking bastard, her last hope for achieving her aim dies. It is by running away that she learns what being family really means and that love is worth fighting for.

A light-hearted and easy read, somewhat predictable but with unique characters and a wonderful story. I really enjoyed reading it and will definitely read more books by this author. It was my first book by Laurie LeClaire but hopefully not the last!

Of the three McCall brothers, Caleb, Cody, and Connor, even though the youngest of the brothers, Connor is by far the most compelling of the three. There is just something about all three brothers and their different personalities, but the way Ms LaClair has brought Connor to life is heart stopping.

Though there've been plenty of run away bride stories that came before this one, the author's unique ability to breathe so much presence and genuineness into the backstory and the way that Connor and Eve find each other is not only comical, but heartwarming at the same time.

Having all the characters that I've come to love in this series, play a part in the couple's present and future, especially Gramps in his loving, yet unorthodox methods for finding brides for his grandsons, what he did for Connor and Eve was priceless. How he and Connor helped Eve find her strength and sense of self set the theme of the story...driving it to the very end to where Connor's barriers were breached and he and Eve found their HEA...there may have been a tear or two shed on my part by the excellent way the emotions pulled you into the story from beginning to end.

This ARC book was complimentary, provided by the Publisher and NetGalley. I am voluntarily providing my honest review.