Home is where you make itLady Emmaline Lewellyn Grayson has never felt at home in her stuffy, aristocratic world. She might look the part of a Lady and play it to perfection, but a wilder world has always beckoned. A world where people say what they mean and keep their promises. A world where, if a man says “I love you,” the next word isn’t “but…” Liam McNair is a rough and tumble cattleman with … and tumble cattleman with a station to run and no time to babysit a fragile English rose. But if Lady Em needs a keeper for the short time she’ll be in Australia, it might as well be him. He’ll show her the Outback, keep her out of trouble, maybe have a little fun and at the end of her stay he’ll gladly wave her on her way.
Three months. Two worlds. One proposal. Decision time.
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I read a blurb about this book about 2 weeks before it came out and I could not want to devour the entire book…which I did in my bed the moment it hit my kindle. There was just something that drew me into this book. Emma. or Lady Emmaline Lewellyn Grayson is introduced at the tinder age of 7 being sent to her fathers home by her cold and uncaring mother. Seems that she (her mother) had a contract to care for her for the first 7 years after that it was up to Lord Grayson to take over. And he was uncaring and cold as a wet fish. She doesn’t really have a home and makes one for herself wherever she goes. She raises herself basically with the help of finishing schools. But life or fate as you will does come into place she goes to meet her long lost family in Australia (whom we have met in prior books) and in doing so she meets Liam. Fate as you would has her returning time and time again to not just visit her family in the land down under but Liam and also could it possibly be a place she could finally call “home”. I loved and adored this book. It has everything I needed…push and pull and more. I hope that this series doesn’t end with just the 8 books from the Outback because I have loved exploring this beautiful country through the eyes and pages of these authors penned words. Here is a list of both sets. I highly recommend all eight books.
Outback Brides: Maggie’s Run
Outback Brides: Belles Secret
Outback Brides: Elsa’s Stand
Outback Brides: Holly’s Heart
Outback Brides of Wirralong: Jenna
Outback Brides of Wirralong:Tess
Outback Brides of Wirralong:Lacey
Outback Brides of Wirralong: Emma
I love this series, each book stands alone but it’s more fun to read them all and discover the town and it’s people. This one takes place out of town…way out in the middle of nowhere. As a city girl I can’t even imagine. You’ll taste the dust, squirm over the spiders and shudder as the mention of snakes, ok that’s just me huh. The English aristocrat and the Outback bloke, can you get any more opposite. Sparks do fly though, this girl can leave her corsets behind and strap on her mustering gear. Great story, I loved it.
This was a beautiful love story between two people who had some healing to do. Emma was the daughter of an earl from London. Her parents were very dysfunctional and didn’t appreciate the wonderful, beautiful daughter they had. Instead, they ignored her and passed her off as chattel. Amazingly, she was pretty well adjusted for someone who had been ignored and neglected and who could never meet her parent’s expectations or desires. She went to visit her cousin, Maggie, in Australia. While there, she came across, Liam, who was a rough and tumble cattle rancher in a remote area of the Australian outback.
Liam had never found a woman who could accept him or his family ranch or the idea of being alone in the wilderness. That is until he found this English rose who was tougher than she seemed and able to do hard things. He wanted to protect her and the more he came to love her, the scarier that thought became. He hadn’t been able to protect him mother and he had lost her at a young age.
I won’t give away the story except to say that there is an HEA and a beautiful love story that is told. There were a few f-bombs dropped during a tense scene in the book and some moderately graphic details of a sexual nature. Otherwise, the book was enjoyable and clean to read.
I was given an arc copy of this book and I willingly offer my honest review.
4.5
Cute
What I liked:
The writing style
The characters
Part of a series: Outback Brides of Wirralong
Standalone
HEA
Epilogue
I look forward to reading more from this author.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC from NetGalley.