A review by jbarr5
The Cowboy Takes a Bride by Lori Wilde

5.0

The Cowboy Takes A Bride by Lori Wilde
Mariah Callahan inherited her father's ranch and she learns about this from Joe Daniels. Her mom had left Mexico with her when her father didn't come home one night-for weeks on end. She left to take a job with a family in Illinois.
She is a wedding assistant and has arrived at the ranch, first mistaking Joe's ranch as hers. She meets up with Clover who used to with her husband watch her grow up when she was an infant.
Love the inspiration quotes at the beginning of every chapter from Dutch.
Love how she walks through the buildings and remembers things her dad told her about horses, cutting horses and saddles, etc
The sense of community with everyone who's in the co-op and makes it work.
Joe Daniels shows up to get Miracle to enter them into a race to maybe win 400 hundred thousand in cash. He will follow her to the lawyers and trade her car in. The relapse of his drinking bout the previous night left him with no pants on but his boots in the horse trough. He had buried his wife and then weeks later, his best friend Dutch.
She's agreed to sell him back the ranch, she wants to hightail it outta Jubilee, TX for Chicago and to start up her own wedding business. But she has to wait til Dec. when he can win the race before he can pay her. So she's gonna settle in for a few months.
There are other friends of Joe's who carry on romantically...
Nariah had a few choices, take the money and leave or take the job at the bar for a few months time...
She's always had the dream to have her own wedding business and with others help from the co-op it may become a reality.
Death, hot steamy sex, barn weddings, and fire all play a part in this book...
She has to make a choice when she's offered three times her original salary, but she'd have to do the job in Chicago...
Excerpt from next in the series: the cowboy and the princess