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Hard to Please
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Abigail Bowen lost everything in a tragic fire. Mason Stillwell is about to lose his livelihood. What happens when a clueless matchmaker pairs these hard to please people together?
Abigail’s whole world is destroyed when her parents die in a tragic house fire. All that remained was her fragile relationship with her younger sister. To keep her safe, Abigail travels out West to marry a man set up by a matchmaker, but when they arrive to find out she’s dead and her clueless grandson has taken over, Abigail's situation gets a whole lot worse.
Mason Stillwell doesn’t have time to coddle a woman seeking love. He needs a wife capable of managing his bar's bookkeeping, the one job he can’t do. What he doesn’t expect is for his potential match to be like oil to his water, but with no other option, he realizes he needs to find a way to make it work.
Can these two opposites find happiness through an unlikely match? Will they both be able to reconcile their pasts? And will they find a way to do it before Mason loses his bar and both their futures?
*This book was previously published by my Jenna Brandt pen name under the Border Brides series and has since been republished under my Jennifer Branson pen name under the Second Chance Brides of the Old West series. This book was also previously part of the Bride Herder series under the title Herd to Please.
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