At Love’s Bidding
by Regina Jennings is the story of Miranda Wimplegate and her grandfather as
they travel out to a small town in the Missouri Ozarks when her grandfather accidentally
sells the wrong painting at the auction their family was holding. How the painting came to be at their auction
house is beside the point, and the owners of it, the notorious LeBlancs, want
it back. Desperate to appease the
LeBlancs, the Wimplegates manage to track down the painting. Upon learning that there is an auction house
in the town where the painting was shipped they assume that is where the
painting was sent. They immediately purchase
the auction house and Miranda and her grandfather journey out to it to retrieve
the painting and leave. However they are
in for the shock of their life when they learn that the auction house actually
sells cattle and livestock instead of antiques and fine art.
Wyatt Ballentine, the manager of the auction house, is not
happy about the fact that the Wimplegates bought the auction house when he had
so desperately wished to own it himself.
They are rich and fussy and not at all accustomed to the Spartan life
out here in the Ozarks. However he
cannot deny the attraction he feels for this beautiful but timid young lady. And Miranda finds it difficult to ignore the
draw she has for this ruff and gruff mountain man. Will Miranda and Wyatt be able to overlook
their differences and the fact that they are from completely different worlds? Or will they let the differences of their class
be their relationship’s undoing? And
then there’s the painting… Why was the
painting even shipped to the Ozarks in the first place and who was the person
it was shipped to?
Miranda just wants to find the painting so she can leave as
quickly as possible. Her grandfather’s
mental health has been in a decline since arriving at the Ozarks and she is
desperate to get him back to Boston where he can be better taken care of. However Wyatt, the only person who might be
able to help them, isn’t so sure he wants Miranda to leave.
On a whole I enjoyed the story. It was a sweet romance- even if I felt like
hitting Wyatt over the head with a two by four every once in a while- and I
found it hard to put this book down. My
thanks go to The Book Club Network, Inc. for providing me with a copy for an
honest review. The opinions are my own.
Reviewed by Nicki
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