Totally love Karen Witemeyer's witty humor and appealing characters. Neill Archer finally gets his story. When Neill comes in to town looking for odd jobs to earn the last but if money to buy his own ranch, he finds a note telling him that finds are set aside for supplies and he'll get paid when he finishes repairing a widows roof. He is expecting an older lady and is quite shocked to find young and pregnant Clara Danvers. Her good for nothing husband died and now she's having to fight off his father who wants to take away her baby because he will be the heir of Mack Danvers.Neill enjoys repairing things around the place but his favorite thing is sitting at the dinner table and talking with Clara. They quickly strike up a friendship. Can he keep Danvers from taking Clara's baby away from her? That's his goal. Loved reading another Archer brothers story and revisiting Neill's brothers for a little bit. Aaaaaaaaah!!!!!Sorry, I didn't mean to scream! Well, actually, I did. Sort of. I just finished reading the book less than a minute ago so I'm still a bit... uh... charged. (You know that blissful feeling that you get after you've finished a book and everything turned out great and left you perfectly satisfied, nearly ecstatic, and on top of the clouds??? I have that right now. It's glorious!)My first thought when I started this book was: Yes! She wrote a book about Neill! My next one wasn't as pleasant: Oh no! It's going to be terribly short and I'm not going to like it at all!!Then I unplugged the not-so-positive part of my brain, put all other thoughts aside, and just READ. Oh, how I love doing that!To my infinite relief, Neill is exactly as I'd envisioned him. (I suppose I somehow got the absurd thought that he'd be different because he didn't have his own novel.) He's charming, adorably sweet, ornery (as he says), loyal, and wonderful. I see a little of Travis' protectiveness peeking through his character and find that sweet too.Clara is great as well. Kindhearted, independent, and loving. I think she and Neill are awesome together! (As Meri says: “Yes. You are definitely the right woman.”) I like the “Just until dawn” part. Too cute.Mack – You know, I didn't find him as irritating as the other bad guys in Karen's books. Probably because he softened in the end. Not quite sure whether I like that or not...While I really enjoyed this novella (obviously), I do have one complaint. It was too short. Don't get me wrong, Karen did an awesome job as usual. (The characters were appropriately developed. There was a delightful amount of adventure and romance. And the return of the beloved Archers was awesome, of course.) But it cut my romantic-adventure time shorter. They had to fall in love within a few days, though she wrote it to where it didn't seem nearly as rushed as it was. And I read it within the space of two hours.Oh yeah, one more thing. I don't know if this is just me, but this novella didn't seem as... faith-filled as the other books by Karen Witemeyer. Perhaps it was just because of the lack of space provided, but whatever it was, I don't care for it. Our faith must be apparent in all things.
Do You like book A Cowboy Unmatched (2014)?
The only complaint I have about this book is that it was too short. Otherwise, it was excellent!
—hulio
I read this when it was part of an anthology and loved it!
—mahamflower
This story is in A Match Made in Texas.
—meobeo20892
