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Culpepper Cowboys #2
Rancher's Remorse
Faith Quinlan agreed to marry Cooper Culpepper as part of the deal she and her sisters signed to help the Culpepper boys fulfill the terms of their Granddaddy’s will so they could keep the family ranch. But what Cooper doesn’t know might hurt him. Faith is more than willing to help Cooper out—as he discovers, to his delight, on their wedding night—the trouble is, she thinks she’s not able. But Faith has more than one secret. Her quaint doll-making hobby is more than just a little fun, her dolls have become a nationwide phenomenon. When a reporter shows up to do a story about Faith, Cooper gets all the wrong ideas…and those wrong ideas could spell disaster for their brand-new marriage. Can Faith face her fears and tell Cooper the truth…before Cooper carts her off to the loony bin or jail? PLEASE BE Steam Level = HOT
148 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 23, 2016
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Merry Farmer
290 books1,137 followersUSA Today Bestselling author Merry Farmer lives in suburban Philadelphia with her two cats, Justine and Peter. She has been writing since she was ten years old and realized she didn't have to wait for the teacher to assign a creative writing project to write something. It was the best day of her life. Her books have reached the top of Amazon's charts, and have been named finalists for several prestigious awards, including the RONE Award for indie romance.
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January 26, 2022
Oh, this was a nice read. Obviously the same characters that were in the previous book. I liked the way this story panned out, with Faith's husband getting the wrong idea. Poor Faith, she was told by her mother and doctor that she wouldn't/couldn't have children if she worked on her kiln.
An enjoyable read. 4☆
An enjoyable read. 4☆
May 22, 2016
This novel was written by a crazy person, that's the only way I could describe what I just read. I have no issues really with the novel, other than the two people staring in the novel are crazy. Absolutely crazy. When the hero came up with the idea she was selling babies, I just about lost it. What a long jump that was!
April 9, 2017
Both main characters are just too stupid to live and the angst is too dumb to be real. If extra brain cells could be donated, Cooper and Faith could use some.
February 19, 2019
Babies
Faith is the 2nd sister to get married. She finds out that Colby is just a little OCD. She makes porcelain baby dolls and !makes a healthy profit from it. And with he help of her sisters they are going to help save the ranch. But she hasn't to him all her secrets. Boy are there surprises.
Faith is the 2nd sister to get married. She finds out that Colby is just a little OCD. She makes porcelain baby dolls and !makes a healthy profit from it. And with he help of her sisters they are going to help save the ranch. But she hasn't to him all her secrets. Boy are there surprises.
June 7, 2016
Reviewed at Romance Is Ageless
Faith has an amazing talent – she sculpts life-like baby faces and limbs bringing her creations to life through the tiny details that convey the preciousness of a new born baby. Faith has had to hide both her talent and her business from her ultra conservative parents who believe a woman’s place is only at her husband’s side. In addition, her mother has undermined her daughter in an effort to get her to give up the sculpting that Faith loves to do. There is no excuse for what her mother did, and Faith will pay for believing her in the most devastating way.
Cooper is definitely looking forward to marrying Faith – she is perfect for him, and he’d marry her even if he didn’t need to in order to save their ranch. Cooper is addicted to a tight schedule, in fact he gets quite upset when he is even a few minutes off of his set schedule. When Faith tries to explain to him her doll making hobby Cooper doesn’t really get what she’s talking about, in his mind she makes cute little Raggedy Ann dolls. No, not exactly.
Faith has been trained (brainwashed really) by her parents to feel she has no worth, and that her doll making is stupid and beneath her. Her talent is beyond words, yet only her sisters really get just how amazing a sculptor she is. Faith has learned to hide what she creates, as well as just how popular, famous and well off she actually is from her baby line. So she has not enlightened Cooper on her true business nor abilities to help keep the ranch in the brothers hands.
You know what is said about “assume” – yeah, well Cooper overheard a phone conversation Faith was having with a client about a specialty doll that the woman wanted made for her daughter who had lost a child. Somehow Cooper put all that together as a baby selling ring. Huh? Really? And we will see first hand the results of a couple who holds back information out of fear and true lack of communication. I want to call it a comedy of errors – but really, it’s more like a tragedy of not talking truthfully to each other.
Add into the mix another secret that Faith is keeping, even from her sisters and you have an emotionally powerful story.
There are families like Faith’s. We don’t see them in mainstream life often, but look at reality TV and I can come up with a couple for you to think about before you judge these sisters too harshly. While there were moments when I wanted to shake both of them, I actually felt for Faith. She is a product of her upbringing and what child thinks their parent would ever lie to them about something so important. Cooper latched onto an assumption and ran with it, even when it made no sense even to him. Honestly, my sympathy was more with Faith – at least she had a reason for why she acted as she did.
I did enjoy Rancher’s Remorse and it filled in some of the siblings’ stories nicely. I’m looking forward to continuing the series.
Faith has an amazing talent – she sculpts life-like baby faces and limbs bringing her creations to life through the tiny details that convey the preciousness of a new born baby. Faith has had to hide both her talent and her business from her ultra conservative parents who believe a woman’s place is only at her husband’s side. In addition, her mother has undermined her daughter in an effort to get her to give up the sculpting that Faith loves to do. There is no excuse for what her mother did, and Faith will pay for believing her in the most devastating way.
Cooper is definitely looking forward to marrying Faith – she is perfect for him, and he’d marry her even if he didn’t need to in order to save their ranch. Cooper is addicted to a tight schedule, in fact he gets quite upset when he is even a few minutes off of his set schedule. When Faith tries to explain to him her doll making hobby Cooper doesn’t really get what she’s talking about, in his mind she makes cute little Raggedy Ann dolls. No, not exactly.
Faith has been trained (brainwashed really) by her parents to feel she has no worth, and that her doll making is stupid and beneath her. Her talent is beyond words, yet only her sisters really get just how amazing a sculptor she is. Faith has learned to hide what she creates, as well as just how popular, famous and well off she actually is from her baby line. So she has not enlightened Cooper on her true business nor abilities to help keep the ranch in the brothers hands.
You know what is said about “assume” – yeah, well Cooper overheard a phone conversation Faith was having with a client about a specialty doll that the woman wanted made for her daughter who had lost a child. Somehow Cooper put all that together as a baby selling ring. Huh? Really? And we will see first hand the results of a couple who holds back information out of fear and true lack of communication. I want to call it a comedy of errors – but really, it’s more like a tragedy of not talking truthfully to each other.
Add into the mix another secret that Faith is keeping, even from her sisters and you have an emotionally powerful story.
There are families like Faith’s. We don’t see them in mainstream life often, but look at reality TV and I can come up with a couple for you to think about before you judge these sisters too harshly. While there were moments when I wanted to shake both of them, I actually felt for Faith. She is a product of her upbringing and what child thinks their parent would ever lie to them about something so important. Cooper latched onto an assumption and ran with it, even when it made no sense even to him. Honestly, my sympathy was more with Faith – at least she had a reason for why she acted as she did.
I did enjoy Rancher’s Remorse and it filled in some of the siblings’ stories nicely. I’m looking forward to continuing the series.
May 29, 2016
Second book on the Culpepper Cowboys series.
We have the whole crazy super-religious upbringing going on for Faith. She gets married with the Culpepper boy she wants, but she has some 'secrets' that she can't share with her husband. So because she is so afraid, even when EVERYONE tells her that is not a big deal and she should just tell him, she keeps her secrets and her husband starts to get crazy ideas of what her secrets could be.
The whole setting is ridiculous, the: 'I love you despite everything' is kind of cool and the story is entertaining, but the plot is kind of hard to believe.
We have the whole crazy super-religious upbringing going on for Faith. She gets married with the Culpepper boy she wants, but she has some 'secrets' that she can't share with her husband. So because she is so afraid, even when EVERYONE tells her that is not a big deal and she should just tell him, she keeps her secrets and her husband starts to get crazy ideas of what her secrets could be.
The whole setting is ridiculous, the: 'I love you despite everything' is kind of cool and the story is entertaining, but the plot is kind of hard to believe.
May 22, 2016
A great read
This is Faith and Cooper's story, when she and her sisters move to Wyoming to marry the Culpepper brothers Faith had secrets. She and her sisters were never allowed to work just have hobbies, Faith became a doll maker sculpting life like baby dolls she is so used to keeping it a secret she doesn't tell her new husband. Cooper thinks she makes rag dolls this leads to some very funny misunderstandings but it is all sorted out in the end and they get their happily ever after
This is Faith and Cooper's story, when she and her sisters move to Wyoming to marry the Culpepper brothers Faith had secrets. She and her sisters were never allowed to work just have hobbies, Faith became a doll maker sculpting life like baby dolls she is so used to keeping it a secret she doesn't tell her new husband. Cooper thinks she makes rag dolls this leads to some very funny misunderstandings but it is all sorted out in the end and they get their happily ever after
September 15, 2020
I honestly liked this quite a bit. While the plot becomes sort of ridiculous in a way, I found very amusing. One thing that this book does well is anticipation. There are many times when Faith has the opportunity to tell things [that she should] to Cooper that she should, but circumstances or her own fears get in the way.
I liked both the protagonist and the hero. Having come out of reading a book that had a hero that was egotistical and manipulative, it was refreshing to read of one that was more pedantic yet kind and holding good and altruistic values.
I liked both the protagonist and the hero. Having come out of reading a book that had a hero that was egotistical and manipulative, it was refreshing to read of one that was more pedantic yet kind and holding good and altruistic values.
March 31, 2018
Interesting
Not as good as the 1st one in series but i dont remember many stories where 2nd one is as good as 1st. Another good plot afew things didnt seem to add up to things mentioned in 1st story thou. Needs better flow from 1 to the other. Really hope each story has a 2nd book as you can easily fall inlove with each character and me personally rathers the lead characters of 1st but each to their own.
Not as good as the 1st one in series but i dont remember many stories where 2nd one is as good as 1st. Another good plot afew things didnt seem to add up to things mentioned in 1st story thou. Needs better flow from 1 to the other. Really hope each story has a 2nd book as you can easily fall inlove with each character and me personally rathers the lead characters of 1st but each to their own.
December 7, 2018
Cooper thought his wife Faith was selling babies and baby parts. When really Faith made life like babies, but her parents never wanted the girls to work for a living they were to get married and serve their husbands. Faith’s mom even went to the extreme to say her kiln using made her Barron and had their doctor back it up with her exposure to the kiln caused her womb to shrink up. Their parents are some warped ones, but she ends up pregnant anyways.
June 7, 2018
This is Cooper and Faith Culpepper's story. It will keep you on the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen with Cooper and Faith. This is sort of a modern day mail order bride book story line with a little steam. It would be fine as a standalone story, or read as part of the Culpepper Cowboy series.
April 8, 2019
A HUGE MISUNDERSTANDING
In this story, a second wedding takes place. Unfortunately this second bride, who is hiding secrets, brings a level of unease into her new marriage because she is afraid to tell her husband about the burdens she is keeping hidden. Everything comes to a head when confronts her.
In this story, a second wedding takes place. Unfortunately this second bride, who is hiding secrets, brings a level of unease into her new marriage because she is afraid to tell her husband about the burdens she is keeping hidden. Everything comes to a head when confronts her.
March 20, 2023
This is my favorite so far out of this series (I read only the first 3).
The way Cooper approached the situation was interesting but he cares so much for Faith.
The way the problem was resolved was just wonderful.
I really enjoyed reading about Faith and Cooper because you can feel how he cares for her and really does love her.
The way Cooper approached the situation was interesting but he cares so much for Faith.
The way the problem was resolved was just wonderful.
I really enjoyed reading about Faith and Cooper because you can feel how he cares for her and really does love her.
May 24, 2019
It was a cute story, but I think this one felt a lot more awkward because of severe lack of communication. Faith and Cooper are a cute couple, so I kinda wish we had a little more of their day to day life after they actually talk to each other.
March 6, 2017
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Quints are setup by a marriage broker to marry 4 brothers. Each girl is unique and ready for marriage but they have lived a very sheltered life.
Quints are setup by a marriage broker to marry 4 brothers. Each girl is unique and ready for marriage but they have lived a very sheltered life.
July 30, 2017
Great story
This keeps you the edge and comfortable. The twists and turns keeps you turning the page after page. Love the people
This keeps you the edge and comfortable. The twists and turns keeps you turning the page after page. Love the people
February 5, 2018
Rancher's Remorse
On to the next. Wonderful story. Like the way everything came together. I am off to find the next book in the series.
On to the next. Wonderful story. Like the way everything came together. I am off to find the next book in the series.
November 25, 2018
Book 2
Definitely liked Book Two more than book one. It was funny, they talked more like adults and the moral of the story is to be honest and upfront.
Definitely liked Book Two more than book one. It was funny, they talked more like adults and the moral of the story is to be honest and upfront.
December 6, 2018
Gullible People
This is a story about people keeping children ignorant and lying to them out of a desire to control. A happy ending.
This is a story about people keeping children ignorant and lying to them out of a desire to control. A happy ending.
March 13, 2019
Good, quick read
This is the second book that I've read from her, I love it because it's quick and easy to read
This is the second book that I've read from her, I love it because it's quick and easy to read
March 19, 2019
I enjoyed the writing in this book far more even though I enjoyed the story slightly less than the first one.
May 5, 2019
Faith and Cooper Culpepper's story!
Faith is keeping secrets from Cooper! It was hilarious when Cooper misunderstood what he overheard and went to stop Faith! A must read!
Faith is keeping secrets from Cooper! It was hilarious when Cooper misunderstood what he overheard and went to stop Faith! A must read!
February 2, 2020
Second reading of this book
July 24, 2023
Wonderful story. I really enjoyed it.
October 4, 2016
3.7
Good story, but I was frustrated most of the time.
Good story, but I was frustrated most of the time.
April 2, 2016
An Awesome Read!
I loved reading Rancher's Remorse Culpepper Cowboys Book 2), all about Cooper the second eldest son who is the Forman on the ranch & Faith who is his mail-order bride and the owner of My Baby a premier baby doll company. Faith is one of the four quads that married into the Culpepper family. Her and her sisters have each married a Culpepper brother to help alleviate the requirements that were set forth by there grandfather when he died. The girls also have hobbies that make money, and they plan to make their crafts and sell them and give the money to the ranch so they can pay off cousin Travis for his 1/5 portion of the ranch. The author wrote a very interesting story, and the characters brought said story to life! Read this series, because each book is about one brother & his wife, intertwined with things going on with the rest of the Culpepper gang. I can't wait to read book 3!
I loved reading Rancher's Remorse Culpepper Cowboys Book 2), all about Cooper the second eldest son who is the Forman on the ranch & Faith who is his mail-order bride and the owner of My Baby a premier baby doll company. Faith is one of the four quads that married into the Culpepper family. Her and her sisters have each married a Culpepper brother to help alleviate the requirements that were set forth by there grandfather when he died. The girls also have hobbies that make money, and they plan to make their crafts and sell them and give the money to the ranch so they can pay off cousin Travis for his 1/5 portion of the ranch. The author wrote a very interesting story, and the characters brought said story to life! Read this series, because each book is about one brother & his wife, intertwined with things going on with the rest of the Culpepper gang. I can't wait to read book 3!
May 20, 2016
Faith and Cooper have chemistry, even though their communication mishaps keep life interesting. Secrets are never good in a relationship, especially to someone as OCD as Cooper. This book is a riot and made me laugh and shake my head several times - men! (Snort!)
I have enjoyed both books in the series and eagerly await book three in the series. Romance + Humor = A quick, enjoyable read for fans of Merry Farmer and Kirsten Osbourne!
I have enjoyed both books in the series and eagerly await book three in the series. Romance + Humor = A quick, enjoyable read for fans of Merry Farmer and Kirsten Osbourne!
April 12, 2016
Laughed out loud!
This book had me laughing from begging to end as well as captivated with the wonderful characters. The Culpepper men are strong, hard working cowboys who need to save their ranch. They go in an extraordinary adventure with their mail order brides that will have you laughing and sighing at the same time.
This book had me laughing from begging to end as well as captivated with the wonderful characters. The Culpepper men are strong, hard working cowboys who need to save their ranch. They go in an extraordinary adventure with their mail order brides that will have you laughing and sighing at the same time.
April 24, 2016
Wow
Cooper has a case of OCD and an overactive imagination. Selling babies......really. Faith should have spoken up if not before they were married at least before they had sex for the first time. She started off her marriage with half truths, omissions, and lies. That's just not right.
Cooper has a case of OCD and an overactive imagination. Selling babies......really. Faith should have spoken up if not before they were married at least before they had sex for the first time. She started off her marriage with half truths, omissions, and lies. That's just not right.
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