A Bouquet of Brides Romance Collection

For Seven Bachelors, This Bouquet of Brides Means a Happily Ever After

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Pub Date 01 Jan 2018 | Archive Date 01 Apr 2018

Description

A bouquet of brides is picked for love.
Meet seven American women who were named for various flowers but struggle to bloom where God planted them. Can love help them grow to their full potential?
 
Holly and Ivy by Mary Davis (1890, Washington State)
At Christmastime, Holly Harrison accompanies her impetuous younger sister on her trip across the country to be a mail-order bride. But even as she tries to persuade her sister that loving a stranger is foolhardy, Holly loses her own heart to a fellow traveler.
 
Periwinkle in the Park by Kathleen Kovach (1910, Colorado)
Periwinkle Winfield is a hiking guide helping to commission a national park. But a run-in with a mountain man who is determined to keep the government off his land may place her in great danger.
 
At Home with Daffodils by Paula Moldenhauer (1909, Oklahoma)
When her childhood sweetheart returns to town, will Dilly Douglas accept the worthy heart he offers, or will the old wound he opens keep them apart?
 
A Song for Rose by Suzanne Norquist (1882, Rockledge, Colorado)
Can Patrick O’Donnell, a tenor disillusioned by the performance industry, convince Rose Miller that that there is more to music than her dream of joining an opera company?
 
Beauty in a Tansy? by Donita K. Paul (1918, South Dakota)
Tansy Terrell was named after a weed. When she opens shop next door, Arthur Blake recognizes Tansy's need to be valued as a beautiful flower but fails to see his own worth as a maker of instruments and music.
 
A Prickly Affair by Donna Schlachter (1885, Arizona)
A rough-and-tumble cowgirl, “Cactus” Lil Duncan longs for true love, but is afraid to let down her prickly exterior when a city slicker from New York City, with less-than-honorable intentions, tries to win her heart and her hand.
 
In Sheep’s Clothing by Pegg Thomas (1702, Connecticut)
Peter Maltby might be all good looks and charm, working in the new mill fulling wool, but Yarrow Fenn fears he is the Crown’s agent in disguise who will destroy the only livelihood she has.
 
A bouquet of brides is picked for love.
Meet seven American women who were named for various flowers but struggle to bloom where God planted them. Can love help them grow to their full potential?
 
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ISBN 9781683223818
PRICE $14.99 (USD)
PAGES 448

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I like the olios of romantic stories to just while away an hour or two between jobs I need to do and this one is a complete bouquet of flowers. Each heroine's name is also a flower name but sometimes the girl in question doesn't like her name or its implications. The hero of the story has to convince the posey that she is not only likable, but her flower name has a broader, more impressive meaning than she believes.

Barbour Books searches out the authors who do creditable jobs in putting together these short novels (which to my mind is a bit harder to do than writing a full-length novel. I mean, you have to get the character development, setting, plot, plot twists, and denouement in fewer words and fewer pages than a full length novel.) and Barbour finds these incredible writers and draws the best out of them.

This is a five-star collection, two thumbs up, and a bouquet for your wedding.

My thanks to Barbour Books for allowing me to read and review this book.

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A Bouquet of Brides Romance Collection includes bridal stories by Mary Davis, Kathleen E. Kovach, Paula Moldenhauer, Suzanne Norquist, Donita Kathleen Paul, Donna Schlachter, and Pegg Thomas. Some of these authors were new to me so I always find an anthology a great way to sample their work. These stories all carry a common theme besides being American brides, one that I found delightful. Each of the female lead character has a flower name. How fun is that.
The stories range in time from the 1700’s to the earlier 1900’s. Almost all of them also take place in the western states with one in Connecticut. Each book has the author unique style of storytelling along with varied social situations that the characters live.
I especially like Periwinkle in the Park by Kathleen Kovach that takes place in a national park. This is different from the normal Brides stories. Another one I thought was as interesting as enjoyable is In Sheep’s Clothing by Pegg Thomas which has a setting I was unfamiliar with, that of an early 1700 Connecticut woolen mill.
I can recommend to fans of sweet, romantic stories are with strong females and honorable males. That makes for a wonderful read if the stories are well told, which these are. It is a perfect way to find new authors through these novellas.
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Beautiful stories. I love the Barbour novella collections. It gives us a chance to read known to us authors and try new to us authors all in one book. All the main character females in this collection have flower names and some beautiful and unusual ones too like Yarrow and Pennyroyal. I have read many Barbour books over the years and I can always count on clean,fun and entertaining reads that I can have confidence sharing with my teen daughter.
Pub Date 01 Jan 2018
Thank you to NetGalley and Barbour Publishing, Inc. for a review copy in exchange for my honest review.

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I love that Barbour collections include some of my favorite authors and introduce “new to me” authors. 
The “bouquet” in this book is a wonderful collection of brides named after flowers. I liked that unique link. 
As a whole, I enjoyed the book. There were a couple novellas that seemed a bit rushed with abrupt beginnings or endings. I think a few more paragraphs on either side would have given them more depth. I still enjoyed the stories though. I learned a few things too, especially reading Pegg Thomas' In Sheep's Clothing. Caring for sheep, shearing them, carding the wool, spinning, weaving and making your own cloth, then having to make your own clothes with that cloth. Wow, I'm so very glad to live in modern times. 

*I received a digital copy of this book from the publishers via NetGalley. No review was required. All opinions expressed are entirely my own.

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This was a wonderful read, I greatly enjoyed it. I love being able to try new authors and read from ones that I already have read books from before. All the different romances were wonderfully written, and it definitely was what I like in romance books

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This book interested me because the premise was about 7 women struggling to bloom where God has planted them and I was looking forward to the encouragement I would receive about that in my own life and those God has placed around me as I read about these American women. One of the stories brings out the reflection from one of the ladies as she looks out over a vast expanse and reflects on what in her life needs to change and what needs to stay. Another is breathing a silent prayer for favor. Another moment in the book is the truth of salvation. That Jesus keeps on saving over and over, every minute. This is just a few of the inspiring treats in this one. There were funny moments as well and of course, there was romance in the bringing together of lives before God.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

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