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The Groom Who (Almost) Got Away
The groom who almost got away?
Completely got away is more like it. Max Slade just up and left Calley Hastings without a word. But now, three little Slades suddenly send for her....
What she
1) Max left her to raise his orphaned brothers on their Wyoming ranch.
2) The boys figured Max would smile more if Calley came to marry him.
3) Max still isn't smiling.
Now, Calley's in love with four Slade cowboys. And the tall, good-looking one in the Stetson isn't getting away again....
Completely got away is more like it. Max Slade just up and left Calley Hastings without a word. But now, three little Slades suddenly send for her....
What she
1) Max left her to raise his orphaned brothers on their Wyoming ranch.
2) The boys figured Max would smile more if Calley came to marry him.
3) Max still isn't smiling.
Now, Calley's in love with four Slade cowboys. And the tall, good-looking one in the Stetson isn't getting away again....
125 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 1996
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Carla Neggers
143 books1,608 followersCarla Neggers is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sharpe & Donovan series featuring Boston-based FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan, and the popular Swift River Valley series set in the small, fictional New England town of Knights Bridge. With many bestsellers to her credit, Carla loves to write now as much as she did when she climbed a tree at age eleven with a pad and pen and spun stories perched on her favorite branch.
A native New Englander, Carla and her husband divide their time between their hilltop home in Vermont, a sofa bed at their kids' places in Boston and various inns, hotels and hideaways on their travels, frequently to Ireland.
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A native New Englander, Carla and her husband divide their time between their hilltop home in Vermont, a sofa bed at their kids' places in Boston and various inns, hotels and hideaways on their travels, frequently to Ireland.
Find out more and sign up for Carla's newsletter at CarlaNeggers.com.
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September 20, 2019
Max Slade left Calley Hastings in New York City with no explanation when his father and stepmother died. He left to go back to his WY ranch and raise his 3 little half-brothers. Four years later, the oldest boy finds a photo album of Calley and Max and concocts an email relationship designed to get Calley to come to the ranch to meet "a widow with 5 kids". What she finds is Max and 3 brothers. Over her 2 week stay their love is rekindled and she decides WY isn't so bad... in fact, just what she wants if Max comes with it.
February 1, 2015
This was a light and a funny read from Carla Neggers. I love it when kids play nasty. And the young Slade boys did it to perfection by pretending to be a widow with three little kids and after living all 'her' life in a ranch, she really wanted to know a lot about New York City. And authentic New Yorker Calley Hastings couldn't believe she actually for the sob story as she exchanged e-mail messages with the 'widow.'
Max Slade broke his engagement with Calley four years ago and left New York--without telling her why. It was thanks to the boys for finding his unfinished letters meant for her, trying to explain why he left. But even with Calley already in his Montana ranch, he still couldn't ask her to leave New York permanently and help him take care of his three orphaned brothers. But that didn't stop Calley from realizing that she belonged with Max.
Personally, I haven't come to that point in my life wherein I have to make a choice to leave everything that's familiar and be with that special someone. But I guess home is really where the heart is--and it doesn't have to be a place.
Max Slade broke his engagement with Calley four years ago and left New York--without telling her why. It was thanks to the boys for finding his unfinished letters meant for her, trying to explain why he left. But even with Calley already in his Montana ranch, he still couldn't ask her to leave New York permanently and help him take care of his three orphaned brothers. But that didn't stop Calley from realizing that she belonged with Max.
Personally, I haven't come to that point in my life wherein I have to make a choice to leave everything that's familiar and be with that special someone. But I guess home is really where the heart is--and it doesn't have to be a place.
September 2, 2014
Always like Carla Neggers books, this was a quick fun read!
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