Take a walk down the aisle—western style—with these tales of unbridled love, from a trio of New York Times bestselling authors who know the way to a cowboy’s heart … hearts—together. But will front page news put a damper on the sparks flying between them?
“No one beats this author for sensual anticipation.”
—Rave Reviews
Wind River Wedding * Lindsay McKenna
A sprawling family ranch in Wyoming, or a swanky Hamptons hideaway? A young couple’s future in-laws try to stake their claim on where the newlyweds will live. But these lovebirds won’t be corralled …
“Moving and real … impossible to put down.”
—Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED REVIEW on Wind River Rancher
The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride * Kate Pearce
Between a hen night that goes terribly wrong and a missing wedding dress, a bride-to-be wonders if her plan to marry her longtime bad boy cowboy beau is doomed—and he wonders if his fiancée is avoiding the altar. Will love prevail? …
“Captures the spirit of the West.”
—Booklist on The Maverick Cowboy
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MARRYING MY COWBOY is a three book box set totaling about 272 pages. They are quick feel good reads that somewhat remind me of something you would enjoy on the Hallmark Channel. The books that you get are :
Wind River Wedding by Lindsay McKenna
The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride by Kate Pearce
The Rancher’s Wedding by Diana Palmer
I am a big fan of these writers and always looking for their books. Overall really enjoyed this set of books.
Marrying My Cowboy
Three novellas in one volume providing fun reading for everyone…if you like weddings and cowboys, that is. I will say that it might help if you have been reading the series these stories are part of because my favorite is the one that I have read most of the books previous to this story.
THE RANCHER’S WEDDING by Diana Palmer
Cassie Reed and her father have “disappeared” to get away from media attention. They are making the best of things though transplanted to a completely different world. Cassie meets JL Denton due to a prank his cousin plays and then the two get to know one another better, begin to like one another, have ups and downs and eventually find a way to have their happily ever after. Entertaining though Cassie is a bit Victorian in her outlook and thus this is a very tame story. (3 Stars)
WIND RIVER WEDDING by Lindsay McKenna
I have a feeling this is going to be a hit with those who have read more of the Wind River Valley series than I have. I am not sure who Maude and Steve are but know they come before the books I have read and since I don’t remember the books well am left wondering if they do achieve their goals and have a family and if so…are their children genetic or adopted. This is a fun story but fairly linear in the telling and left me wondering what happens at the end of the story and in the decades between this story and the ones I did read. (3 stars)
THE COWBOY LASSOES A BRIDE by Kate Pearce
This series I am invested in so I thoroughly enjoyed it! I have met all the Morgans and their mates and had fun finding out how Sam and HW finally get hitched…tie the knot…are wed. There are definitely surprises and problems and a few things for them to overcome but they do finally get their HEA ending and it was definitely worth waiting for. (4 Stars)
Thank you to NetGalley, Kate Pearce and Kensington-Zebra for the ARC – This is my honest review.
4 Stars
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the three book bundle Marry Me Cowboy: The Rancher’s Wedding by Diana Palmer, Wind River Wedding by Lindsay McKenna and The Cowboy Lassos a Bride by Kate Pearce and this review was given freely.
4 stars
The Rancher’s Wedding by Diana Palmer
An interesting plot with wonderful characters, a lot of controversy, and drama but ends happily. Greed and a false cry of abuse result in screenplay writer Cassie Reed and her TV show host father moving west to Colorado where they get jobs in a small town. Cassie’s job as a waitress sets her up for a practical joke which leads to love and heartbreak with JL, the millionaire owner of the Denton Bar Black Angus cattle ranch.
Wind River Wedding by Lindsay McKenna
4 stars
A clean novel culminating in a wedding but ending in a separation. North East heiress Maud falls in love with Wind River Wyoming Rancher Steve while they both get their college degrees in New Jersey during the 1960″s. The novel is filled with short excerpts packed full of dialogue each of which is separated by 2 or more years and usually occurs in the summer.
The Cowboy Lassos a Bride by Kate Pearce
4 stars
This is the steamy, chaotic, challenged filled and action packed story covering the two weeks from Morgan Ranch’s HW and Sam’s engagement through their wedding night.
*3.5 stars*
Cowboys!
The Rancher’s Wedding* Diana Palmer
I used to read this author all the time – she was my go to for emotional and uplifting romance. This novella was more of what she did best when instant like ignites between a struggling, down on her luck heroine and a wealthy rancher. I struggled with the premise of a virginal, almost perfect heroine and a stoic hero who blinked at the hint of trouble. That didn’t stop me from reading, however, because once past that I enjoyed the simplicity of this sweet story.
Wind River Wedding * Lindsay McKenna
This prequel to the series felt very much like foundation building as the hero and heroine met at school and tried to find a way to bridge their very different families and backgrounds. Low drama found this flashback story from the sixties, a piece of nostalgia as well as a solid romance.
The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride * Kate Pearce
I loved this romance full of sass and vinegar! When a reluctant bride meets a determined groom, the shenanigans were everywhere and they were so much fun! I laughed and cheered as the hero and heroine rolled with the never-ending punches leading up to their wedding day.
*I happily reviewed these stories
**Thank you to NetGalley
Classic Diana Palmer!
I just love all of Diana Palmer’s books. I am only missing 1 so far. Please bring back some of your earlier prints so that I can complete my collection. Thank you for the wonderful story. Keep up the great work.
Marrying My Cowboy is three novellas in one, by three different authors, all relating to courtships and weddings, and, since I marginally liked the first two, I did enjoy the last novella best, and averaging my ratings for all 3 titles, this anthology gets a 3-star average rating from this reader.
The Rancher’s Wedding by Diana Palmer was like every other novel I’ve read by this author–and I’ve read every books she’s ever written. High profile, Cassie Reed and her father are in hiding to disappear from the chaos and media attention, based on a an “All About Eve” character who falsely accuses Cassie’s father of sexual harassment in order to get his weekly TV show for herself. The father and daughter moved out west seeking anonymity, Cassie is now working as a waitress at the local diner, and her father is working at the local hardware and farm machinery store.
One of Cassie’s customers is a practical joker who convinces Cassie that chickens are being horribly abused at the chicken ranch owned by JL Denton, and Cassie agrees to join a protest march that weekend, except she’s the only one who shows up, protest sign in hand, standing alone in the freezing rain and wondering why no one else is there. Finally, handsome, “dishy,” JL, finds her and brings her to his ranch to warm up and dry off. That’s where she learns she’s been had by JL’s cousin, Cary, and that JL doesn’t even own chickens. I so wish Ms. Palmer with get with the fact that’s it’s the 21st century and no one calls anyone “a dish” or “dishy” these days, and hasn’t since the 1930s.
Like all of Ms. Palmer’s heroines, Cassie is a 24-year-old virgin, as straitlaced as they come. JL, a typical Diana Palmer hero, doesn’t trust women easily after his ex-fiance dumped him, and Cassie has to lie to him about who she is and why she’s moved from Atlanta to such a remote town out west, in order to keep her identity from becoming common knowledge due to the small town gossip mill. These two characters spend a lot of time talking, but when cousin Cary plays one more prank on them, the truth about Cassie’s identity and the fact that she’s been lying to JL, makes him drop her like a hot potato and tell her to leave his ranch immediately. Of course, matters are eventually settled, but the plot and characters follow Ms. Palmer’s formula, only with less of a build-up to the couple finally getting together, to their HEA ending. This one was barely a 3-star read for me.
Wind River Wedding by Lindsay McKenna
I’ve been following the Wind River series from the outset, and so I didn’t really need an introduction to the couple who started it all, Maud and Steve, but expected it to be an interesting read. Their budding relationship in this novella is where it all started. It’s the mid-1960s, and Maud is the daughter of a billionaire NYC family, she’s 18, enrolled in Rider College in Princeton, NJ, and Steve is also 18, a ranching cowboy from out west at a 3-generation ranch now owned by his parents. He’s at Princeton working to eventually get his Masters degree in architecture–his dream is to built economical and sustainable homes in third world nations–a selfless and noble idea. Maud’s always loved the great outdoors, disliked the hustle and bustle of NYC, and has always dreams of living and working on a ranch. The two first meet as servers in a local homeless shelter and soup kitchen, funded by Maud’s wealthy family, and they like each other immediately. They eventually live together, fall in love, and plan to marry. Maud loves Steve’s family ranch, Steve’s family loves her, but her mother wants her to use her MBA to take over her billion dollar, high society life in NYC, which is the last thing Maud wants.
My problem with this novella is that while it gives us the budding relationship of the main characters who formed and developed the Wind River ranch that we’ve come to know in this series. and learn their differences and similarities, so much time was spent on them discussing their future plans and professing their love for one another, that there wasn’t one iota of drama, not even a slight disagreement about anything or anyone to liven up this novella, which was utterly mundane and predictable. I’ve been reading Ms. McKenna’s novels for decades, but in all honesty, this was, in my opinion, the most uneventful and boring thing she’s ever written. It gets a 2-star rating from this reader.
The Cowboy Lassos a Bride by Kate Pearce
I’ve been following the Morgan Ranch series for some time, and am addicted to books about wounded warriors and the way they cope when they return home. This novella is about how Sam (Samantha) and HW, who’ve been featured in earlier novels, finally get together and marry, and it’s the best of the 3 novellas in this anthology. It was a blessed relief after the first two novellas left me wanting more. There was plenty of emotion, and some heat between these two characters, plenty of issues and pre-wedding complications and craziness before these two finally make it to the altar, and their happily ever after ending and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Because it out-shined the two previous novellas and kept me entertained throughout, it gets 4 stars from this reader.
I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy of this book. The opinions expressed are my own.
Great book
Three really good well written western stories that once I started this set I was not putting down until I finished reading them. There is The Rancher’s Wedding* Diana Palmer, Wind River Wedding * Lindsay McKenna, and The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride * Kate Pearce these stories have there own merits. I know I will be rereading these stories. I received a copy through Net Galley and I am voluntarily reviewing them. I recommend this set.
If you love cowboys, you can’t go wrong with “Marrying My Cowboy”. Three authors bringing readers fun stories of sexy cowboys with lots of misadventures. The blurb in each story gives you a theme of a wedding, but the authors themselves was enough for me to want to read this fun trilogy of western romance. A great chance for readers to get three stories in one book of cowboys finding their HEAs by well known authors of western romance. I received a copy of “Marrying My Cowboy” from NetGalley and Kensington Books. My opinions are voluntary and my own. 4.25 Stars!
Slow going. Hard to get into the story
GOOD CHARACTERS WITH PROBLEMS TO OVERCOME
2.5stars
This is a bundle of three different stories about getting mary to cowboys. The only one that I truly enjoyed to read was the last and seeing HW and Sam get married. I loved to see al the Morgans and everyone enjoying and working together in this cute novel. And only because of that story there is such a high rate. The second was for me disaster I jumped through it leaving sentences and pages. I don’t get the story about so long engagement with nothing special happening. The first one is a story about innocence, if it wants for the humor I couldn’t read it. Everything was just to perfect but it was way better than the second.
I volunteered to review an ARC of this book for Netgelly
Wish she would change up a little from older man and virgin girl
Kate Pearce’s excellent short story, Cowboy Lassoes a Bride is the only one worth reading in this anthology and I’m really sad about that. I have never read anything by Diana Palmer or Lindsay McKenna and I was really looking forward to it. Now I can say I will never look at their titles again. Diana Palmer’s Rancher’s Wedding was an OK story but it had so many errors in it. It started out with a promising opening scene that was a really different way to start a love story and it just never tugged at my heart. Maybe her other stories are better. Lindsay McKenna’s Wind River Wedding was definitely a looking back to the beginning couple. But it was a “telling” story not one experienced with the characters. She told us what happened and I found I wasn’t invested in it. When you read a short story, you should hunger to read the series it’s set in when you finish the story. I didn’t with either of these tales.
Kate Pearce gave us a truly stellar story. We got to share in the lives of the Morgan family we have come to love. We care about the characters and are pulling for the wedding to happen. We even get laugh out loud moments like Sam being arrested for being “loud & obnoxious, and fondling public property”! Some bachelorette party she had! I am delighted Kate gave us another peek at this special family.
A copy for this book was provided to me for an honest and voluntary review.
It’s that time of year again. Love is in the air, beauty is starting to bloom and temperatures are on the rise. With the season of love on It’s way, It’s fitting that romance jumps in on the fun. Marrying My Cowboy came on the radar for me because I am a fan of all three authors. Pearce gives us something to talk about when taking a chance on naughty puts in question a matter of the heart. McKenna is the boss when it comes to wild rides, emotional moments and inspiring storytelling. Diana Palmer makes scandal front page news and our hearts are the prize at hand. Full of captivating characters, laugh out loud moments and irresistible romance, Marrying My Cowboy will put a move on hearts everywhere.
Three excellent modern western romances. All three of the authors developed likeable and entertaining characters. The story line was also well developed and each story was a page turned with a HEA. The blurb gives the reader the basic set up of the stories but as they develop there is intrigue, working together, deep love and humor. This set has something for everyone. I received a complementary copy of this book via Net Galley and chose to write a review. I look forward to reading future books by Ms. Pearce, Ms. McKenna and Ms. Palmer.
The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride by Kate Pearce – 5 stars.
I requested a copy of this anthology from NetGalley solely because I wanted to read and review Kate Pearce’s story. My rating is based on that one alone as real life stuff has kept me from having the time to read the other two.
I’ve read all of the books in the Morgan Ranch series, and loved them, so I couldn’t wait to get my eyes on this one. While I think you will still enjoy this story even if you haven’t read the other Morgan Ranch books, I urge you to at least read The Bad Boy Cowboy first. It’s the story of how HW and Sam first get together.
HW Morgan has been the bad-boy of this series but he finally met his match in Samantha (Sam) Kelly in The Bad Boy Cowboy. I loved that story so much and I couldn’t wait to read about their wedding trials and tribulations in The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride.
HW is so afraid that Sam is going to leave him just like his mother did so it wasn’t difficult to guess what kind of situation might crop up in this story. What was fun about it though, was waiting for the “thing” to happen and not knowing when it was going to happen.
This story was such a fun read. I really enjoyed visiting with all of the characters from previous books. Everyone in the extended Morgan family is so supportive of each other, even when they don’t always see eye-to-eye. Reading such great family stories helps me to escape from the stress of everyday life.
I’m looking forward to reading more stories set in the world of Morgantown. The Second Chance Rancher, coming in late May, kicks off a new related series called The Millers of Morgan Valley and I’m ready to read it!
A review copy was provided by the publisher via NetGalley but this did not influence my opinion or rating of the book.
Marrying My Cowboy is a collection of 3 cowboy stories by different authors. Having enjoyed the Morgan Ranch series by Kate Pearce immensely, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this story. Overall, I loved The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride which is a great addition to the Morgan Ranch series and cannot wait to read more.
As for the other 2 stories, while their names are familiar, they are still new to me authors. The Diana Palmer story had a lot of inconsistencies and I never really got invested in the characters. Very little spark. With regard to Wind River Wedding, this was obviously a prequel to another series and it left me more confused than interested.
My main reason for reading this collection for was for “The Cowboy Lassoes a Bride” by Kate Pearce. I LOVE the Morgan Ranch series and I was not going to pass up HW and Sam’s wedding. What a fun read! I swear whatever could go wrong did go wrong. You know you can depend on the Morgan’s to come together and make everything right. If you haven’t read the Morgan Ranch series – you are seriously missing out!
All three stories are heartwarming, romantic tales featuring swoon-worthy cowboys. How can you go wrong with that!