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Rescuing the Runaway Bride
WRONG GROOM, RIGHT BRIDE
When the beautiful daughter of a wealthy Mexican landowner is injured saving his life, Christopher Samuels must nurse her back to health. Despite their language barrier, Chris grows close to Vicky Ruiz…but she’s betrothed to another man. Can Chris care for the spirited young woman and find a way to take her home in time for her wedding, without falling for her in the process?
Vicky would prefer spinsterhood to her arranged marriage. But while words aren’t necessary to express the growing attraction between them, Vicky can’t make Chris understand her reasons for running away. He seems determined to return her “home” to her father’s hacienda. Why can’t Chris see that the only home Vicky wants is with him?
When the beautiful daughter of a wealthy Mexican landowner is injured saving his life, Christopher Samuels must nurse her back to health. Despite their language barrier, Chris grows close to Vicky Ruiz…but she’s betrothed to another man. Can Chris care for the spirited young woman and find a way to take her home in time for her wedding, without falling for her in the process?
Vicky would prefer spinsterhood to her arranged marriage. But while words aren’t necessary to express the growing attraction between them, Vicky can’t make Chris understand her reasons for running away. He seems determined to return her “home” to her father’s hacienda. Why can’t Chris see that the only home Vicky wants is with him?
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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May 21, 2017
I enjoyed reading this book. Chris was brave and always a southern gentleman. He was on the side of his bride-to-be in each difficulty and that impressed me. First she rescued him and later he rescued her. I'm glad the bad, and controlling people lost their fight.
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July 21, 2021Clean, historical romance.
February 26, 2017
Rescuing The Runaway Bride by Bonnie Navarro. It takes place in 1842 in Alta, California, Territorio of Mexico. Vicky Ruiz runs away from home because she doesn't want to marry the very much older man than her that was arranged by her dad she thought. She sees a puma ready to attack a man, that the man didn't see. When she shot the puma she fell off her horse and the puma landed on her. The man Christopher Samuels. Takes her home and cares for her with the help of his housekeeper a ex-black slave. The man Vicky is to marry doesn't like slaves being free. He is a mean man and has five wives and all are dead now. There are issues when Chris takes Vicky home. Romance happens between Chris and Vicky.
February 5, 2017
Loved the story of learning how to communicate and finding their way home. Great job by this author. Looking forward to reading more from her.
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