The O'Halloran's have a very different view of marriage because of all the old family ties. Bride for BrothersSawyer O'Halloran is apposed to what his brother Christian has proposed to him. Bringing woman to Hard Luck Alaska, he thinks that they are only trouble. But when Abby Sutherland picks up the add she moves almost immediatley to start over with her two children Scott and Susan. Who are so excited to move; especailly Scott because he loves Huskies. When Abby and her children frist arrive they are given a dilapidated cabin to stay in. But as much as Sawyer wants them to move back to Seattle they don't because they literarly don't have anything. Sawyer from the first has felt like he is getting the wind nocked out of him whenever he is around Abby. So Sawyer explaines to Abby how he is never going to mary her. Even if her job wont allow her to move away from him she stays in Alaska. Abby's children are a big reason why she still wont move. But when things get to hard to bear with Sawyer Abby is rethinking everything she has learned. So she decideds to move and springs the bad news to her children, they are so saddend by this that they runaway. In her worry Abby calls Sawyer and he helps Abby look for her children and Sawyer finds them in the cabin that they were given. But after the dramatics Abby still wants to leave. So Sawyer comes running and tells her how he feels and asks her to mary him.The Marriage RiskCharles O' Halloran believes in the only family ties and can't forget about the past. When Lanni Caldwell the grandchild of the woman who destroyed the O' Halloran's marriage. Lanni poses as the secretary that Christian O' Halloran. When Charles comes into the office and sees her for the first time. His reaction to Lanni is unexplainable to him but he knows that he can't live without her. They both get to close, when Lanni and Sawyer's children get attacked by a bear. At his brother's wedding Charles finds out who Lanni really is and he hates her for not telling him. But as the days go by they see each other before she leaves him and her pain behind. In this magical place in Alaska Lanni had to fall in love with an O' Halloran, she feels so sad that he wouldn't get over the past. Lanni goes back to Anchorage where she lives only she is so depressed that she stops eating, loses weight, and everything is falling in around her. When Charles comes from Hard Luck he is tricked into going to Lanni's hotel room. They talk but nothing is solved. Until Lanni gets a visit from Charle's mother. That prompts Lanni to go back to Hard Luck to fight for Charles's love. The same conversation had with Charles's mother was had with Charles. And they barried the past by tieing the knot.
This book is really nothing special, although I do find Debbie Macomber to choose the most bizarre settings! Men in a little Alaskan town of 150 people north of the Arctic Circle decide to offer jobs, shacks and land to women in an attempt to lure them into town for the men to enjoy without having to marry them (which would of course tie the men down and mean they have to take care of the women).A single mom decides to abandon everything in Seattle to move to Hard Luck, somehow arranging to ship all of her belongings in a truck without actually finding out that they won't make it past Fairbanks.. riiiight. Then, a woman returns to Hard Luck only to fall in love with the son of her family's archenemy. Nothing special at all but an entertaining way to waste a couple of hours.
Hard Luck Alaska is a small town of 150 citizens, no main roads, mostly men, bears, and freezing cold. When the men of Hard Luck speak to the owners of Midnight Sons (a airplane company) about moving some women up to the small town to try to keep some pilots in the area they aren't aware that some of them would fall hard and fast. This was a compilation of two stories. The stories were a little similair and different at the same time. There is something about the feel descriped in books about really small towns that makes me want to pack the bags for my family and pick up and leave. Other than needing medical facilities for my daughter I think I would absolutely love living in a small town.
—Tiffany
Midnight Sons Volume: 1Debbie MacomberBrides for Brothers book 1 ☆★☆The Marriage Risk book 2 ☆★☆★Im rating the books together. For quick romance reads, I loved both stories.Oh my gosh book 2 had me crying my eyes out. Books one made me frustrated with Sawyer. I love when a book can bring out so many different emotions at once.I love that it was a good romance even without any sex going on. These books were more emotional. You could almost feel what these two couples were going through. Ellen and davids story is so tragic and sad, but also realistic for their tome period. There wasnt anything to farfetched and I like that. These are fun cozy up next to your fireplace in the winter reads!
—Courtney
There are two novellas in this book. The first one is Brides for Brothers. It is light reading at its best! The story takes place in Hard Luck, Alaska, north of the Artic Circle. The men of this very small town decide to import some single women into town. The results are not quite what they wanted, but are humorous and entertaining.The second novella is The Marriage Risk. It picks up where the first story leaves off. Charles O'Halloran, one of the bush pilots, is as stubborn as they come. But so is Lanni Caldwell, the woman who loves him. After Charles meets with his mother and learns a long-kept secret, he has an attitude change.Another delightfully entertaining story set in small-town America.
—Jan Mcleod
