At Love’s Bidding by Regina Jennings
Litfuse Book Review
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.
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.
Connect with Regina: website, Twitter, Facebook
My thoughts:
Oh my gosh guys. This book, At Love’s Bidding. I laughed so much! Seriously. Great play on the title too. At Love’s Bidding, auction houses, works so well! Never mind if it’s priceless antiques or livestock! I couldn’t put it down and I laughed so much. It’s just full of funny surprises and some twists and turns too. I felt sorry for Miranda when the priceless painting is sold that wasn’t supposed to be sold but was so glad she got to expand her wings. Also, grandfather, well he’s super funny. But I am glad that the author brought in some instability with his character. it’s good for the world to know that this happens. As a nurse who recently worked geriatrics it happens a lot guys.
At Love’s Bidding had better have a sequel is all I’m going to say. Well maybe not all! Seriously. Wyatt is adorable. Well in my mind anyway. His character is so full of strength and power. He wants to make sure that Miranda can love him for who he is inside before she knows who he is in the scheme of the world and social structure. Miranda can’t believe what’s happening of course and it’s all so much fun! I love a good romance with some intrigue and this book is not lacking in either!
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