Prodigal daughter, infamous flirt and fiery-haired champion barrel racer Tucker McTavish blazes back home to Marietta with both a secret, and a personal challenge. She will keep a low profile at her twin sister’s Christmas wedding. Which means no whiskey. No kissing. No scandals. No fun. What she needs is a miracle, so it’s too bad when she visits the legendary Miracle Lake to plead for inner … strength: a tall, dark, and handsome bad boy is waiting with a challenge of his own.
Extreme sports guide Laird Hunter doesn’t do boring. And he thought he didn’t have secrets. He thrives in carving his own trail through tight and dangerous spots, but when he finds out his entire life has been built on a lie, he heads to Marietta for answers. But when he meets the redhead with the killer smile, laughing eyes and body with more curves than a mountain road, he finds himself asking a whole new set of questions.
Will these two daredevils – with more than a few secrets between them – find the one person from whom they don’t need to hide ?
The Wilder Brothers series
Book 1: Seducing the Bachelor
Book 2: Want Me, Cowboy
Book 3: The Christmas Challenge
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Unexpected turn of events
Really enjoyed it!!
I love the romances set in Marietta, Montana. This is another great one. An easy read that built to a great conclusion. Well done.
Tucker goes back to the Triple T Ranch as little as possible. But when her twin sister plans her wedding for Christmas Eve, Tucker has no choice but to leave LA and head home to Marietta, Montana. She plans on being the perfect wedding helper and staying so far out of trouble, no one in town can even begin to gossip. However, she has a less than chaste background with the groom and when a hot cowboy comes within range of Tucker, she finds it hard to say no.
Laird has to Marietta with one goal in mind, to unlock the secrets of his past. He doesn’t expect Tucker to be the first person he meets. She’s a redhead with a bite and he’s drawn to her like no other. But she’s made a promise to herself to stay away from sex, so he makes due with coffee meetups and midnight ice skating.
Their secrets bind them together and they confide in one another with the knowledge that after the Christmas wedding, they’ll both go home. But midnight skating turns into all night talking and some chemistry no one can ignore.
Okay, I want to start with the chemistry between Tucker and Laird. The way they skimmed the unspoken line people do before falling into bed was electric. I just wanted to push them together and yell, “just get in bed!” But the slow burn between them was just another element I really enjoyed, and in retrospect, wouldn’t change a thing.
Tucker’s growth in the book was also very well done. She blew into Marietta as a headstrong, selfish, girl, but by the end, she certainly learned a few lessons on humility and patience. But her flaws made her human and the way she was able to self-reflect was fantastic.
Overall, The Christmas Challenge was a funny, sweet but sexy, holiday romance that made me want to put on my ice skates.
Reminds you that people are more than what you see on the surface.
Wow
The twist and turns of two father’s making their children miserable. Tucker is back for her twin Tanner’s wedding. But she meets Laird while I’ve skating and it must be fate because they help each other with a challenge of change until Christmas Eve.
Too Steamy for me!
Couldn’t even finish the book. Unrealistic. Didn’t hold my interest.
Loved the mystery. Reading and trying to connect the dots of the story was great. The characters felt so real. I will be reading more of this series.
When he discovers his “Mom” isn’t his biological mother, he discovers he has a twin and brothers. He also meets his birth mother.
Great story of twin sisters with very different personalities and desires. I’ve said it before and will again, I love the Marietta, MT stories. The lifestyle and hard-working, down to business attitude of the people are inspiring, but they always make time for family, friends and love.
Loved all four books.
as always the Marietta authors are great their stories seem to blend seamlessly
Enjoyed reading this Christmas story.
A short read to pass the time.Does not need much concentration.
A most enjoyable read!
Great book and series. Easy to fall in love with the people and story yummy.
Tucker and Laird both need something to get some order to their lives. When they meet, it’s obvious there is attraction; but as luck would have it, Tucker has sworn off men and messes for a month so she doesn’t screw up her sister’s wedding. And Laird is in Marietta only to try and locate a sibling, a twin he didn’t know he had until very recently. Neither of them is looking for a hookup. This story is real and the characters, though flawed, are people the reader can relate to and soon care about. It is a wonderful story about trying to find and keep love.
Just love reading Christmas romance. For couple of hours of reading and putting myself in the story to get away from real life nd enjoy happy story make me believe in happeness
Great contemporary Romance. Easy, fun read.