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The Marrying Kind
Anything can happen when four meddlesome, retired Texas Rangers try their hand at matchmaking. As Christmas draws near, clandestine meetings are held to foil Sheriff Rafe Wilson's plans to leave Cut Creek and the infuriating dressmaker Peony Potter behind. Will Rafe follow in his father's footsteps and join up with the Texas Rangers or will a Christmas miracle keep him home where he belongs?
Note: this novella first appeared in Lone Star Christmas
Note: this novella first appeared in Lone Star Christmas
68 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 12, 2013
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About the author
Kathleen Y'Barbo
132 books747 followersPublishers Weekly bestselling author Kathleen Y’Barbo is a multiple Carol Award and RITA nominee of more than one hundred novels with almost two million copies in print in the US and abroad.
A tenth-generation Texan and certified paralegal, she has been nominated for a Career Achievement Award as well a Reader’s Choice Award and is the winner of the Inspirational Romance of the Year by Romantic Times magazine.
To connect with her through social media, check out the links on her website at www.kathleenybarbo.com.
A tenth-generation Texan and certified paralegal, she has been nominated for a Career Achievement Award as well a Reader’s Choice Award and is the winner of the Inspirational Romance of the Year by Romantic Times magazine.
To connect with her through social media, check out the links on her website at www.kathleenybarbo.com.
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April 18, 2019
Apr 8, 2019
A lot of things didn't seem to add up in this story, but the story premise was great! The ending seemed to assume a lot of the relationship, we as the audience, were missing. But, I love how they're meddling men, instead of women and I love the brotherlike bonding that is so rarely displayed like this! The whole town is a family. I hope the founding fathers/Rangers find romance in future books! You're never too old for love!
A lot of things didn't seem to add up in this story, but the story premise was great! The ending seemed to assume a lot of the relationship, we as the audience, were missing. But, I love how they're meddling men, instead of women and I love the brotherlike bonding that is so rarely displayed like this! The whole town is a family. I hope the founding fathers/Rangers find romance in future books! You're never too old for love!
December 13, 2014
“The Marrying Kind” by Kathleen Y’Barbo
About this book:
“Peony Potter, a pretty girl with a mysterious past, has swept into town with a heap of trouble following close on her heals. When she comes head-to-head with local sheriff and his suspicions, their relationship seems forever splintered before it’s even begun.”
Spiritual Content- Luke 2:49 at the beginning; Church going; Celebrating the Savior’s birth; Prayers.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘shut up’.
Sexual Content- a barely-above-not-detailed kiss & four not-detailed kisses; Wanting to & Almost kissing; Peony’s mother owns a brothel-type place, but Peony was never “worked” there (nothing really is said expect: “Someday soon, she’d be sleeping in a real bed in a room with a door she didn’t have to bar with a kitchen chair to keep Mama’s clientele from “accidentally” trying to climb beneath her covers.”); Love, falling in love, and the emotions.
-Peony Potter
-Rafe Wilson
P.O.V. switches between them & Eb
Set in 1878 {But the Prologue is set in 1851}
123 pages with a recipe!
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Pre Teens- One Star
New Teens- One Star (and a half)
Early High School Teens- Two Stars
Older High School Teens- Three Stars
My personal Rating- Three Stars
I giggled at many parts of this novella, but, I had to lower ratings because of Peony’s past.
Link to review:
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*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
About this book:
“Peony Potter, a pretty girl with a mysterious past, has swept into town with a heap of trouble following close on her heals. When she comes head-to-head with local sheriff and his suspicions, their relationship seems forever splintered before it’s even begun.”
Spiritual Content- Luke 2:49 at the beginning; Church going; Celebrating the Savior’s birth; Prayers.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘shut up’.
Sexual Content- a barely-above-not-detailed kiss & four not-detailed kisses; Wanting to & Almost kissing; Peony’s mother owns a brothel-type place, but Peony was never “worked” there (nothing really is said expect: “Someday soon, she’d be sleeping in a real bed in a room with a door she didn’t have to bar with a kitchen chair to keep Mama’s clientele from “accidentally” trying to climb beneath her covers.”); Love, falling in love, and the emotions.
-Peony Potter
-Rafe Wilson
P.O.V. switches between them & Eb
Set in 1878 {But the Prologue is set in 1851}
123 pages with a recipe!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Pre Teens- One Star
New Teens- One Star (and a half)
Early High School Teens- Two Stars
Older High School Teens- Three Stars
My personal Rating- Three Stars
I giggled at many parts of this novella, but, I had to lower ratings because of Peony’s past.
Link to review:
http://booksforchristiangirls.blogspo...
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
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March 16, 2021The Marrying Kind is one of two novellas in Texas Christmas Brides, it is also included Lone Star Christmas: Someone Is Rustling Up a Little Holiday Matchmaking in Four Delightful Stories.
October 26, 2014
A fun little Novella. Rafe Wilson's father promises his mother on her death bed that he would not allow Rafe to join the Texas Rangers. Now that he's old enough, his father and his three past Ranger friends have to find a way to keep Rafe from leaving town to join the Rangers. They have to convince him that Cut Creek, the town the established together, needs him as a lawman and that he'll be happiest with family and a wife.
November 30, 2015
This was a cute Christmas story, but felt very rushed and some things were not very clear.
December 16, 2014
Sweet, I guess, but mostly cliched and lame.
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