When Dallas society bride Elizabeth Eve Barrington discovers her intended’s financial ulterior motives for marriage, she hightails it out of the church in her wedding gown and hops in the back of a parked and beat-up pickup truck. Happy to leave the big city, sexy cowboy Connor McCall jumps in his truck, revs up his engine, and then heads home to Honor, Texas with the goal of saving his family’s … his family’s failing ranch. Hours later and miles down country roads, Connor discovers the stowaway bride, and he’s pretty sure she’s feigning amnesia.
What’s a cowboy to do? Cowboy up, of course. He takes Eve home, determined to solve her mystery. What he discovers is a lot of smoke–and where there’s smoke, there’s fire, with the heat generating between them hot enough to burn. Will Connor be damned if he falls for the beautiful runaway bride or will he be damned if he doesn’t?
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Love it!
Good book….was disappointed when I reach the end!
Fun story .
Loved characters! Especially Gramps.
An enjoyable, light, easy read. The characters are charming and warm. I enjoy seeing the transformation of the main female character from someone who has lost her sense of self grow to remember who she is and the strength she has. She runs from the disfunctional family and fiancé to hide in the truck of a cowboy and is transported (literally) to the country, where she faces fears and circumstances that challenge her and force her to decide who she is and wants to be. All the while assisted by a handsome cowboy who shares an electric attraction with her.
Very enjoyable read
This book was ok. I don’t get the motivation behind the female lead AT ALL so that part was really weak, but the overall feels were good.
She was in a limo on her way to her wending. How could she possible lose her veil? Wouldn’t the windows be up? He was able to retrieve the veil and run after the car to pass it to her. Immediate electric reaction? It was just too cheesy for me. I tried to get into it but stopped at the fourth chapter.
great read
The Cowboy’s Runaway Bride by Laurie LeClaire, the third book in her McCall Brothers series is a sweet story about finding love, friendship, family and trust. Elizabeth Eve Barrington is getting married only to help create harmony in her family, not because she loves the groom. On her escape out of the church she overhears him telling his boss how he is marrying her for a trophy wife and will get her cardiologist father to endorse a questionable heart medicine after the marriage. Eve, as she goes by now, ran and hid in a parked pick-up truck. Connor McCall is not ready for love, worried more about saving the family ranch and Gramps. When Conn saves a runaway veil and returns it to the bride, he has no idea how that action will affect his future, let alone the electric shock he feels when their hands touch. Out of all the trucks Eve could choose, she picked Connor’s and ends up at the McCall ranch. Eve and Conn share an attraction with lots of chemistry, but can they trust one another with the truth.
I loved reading this book and had trouble putting this book down, reading it in one day. I laughed, I worried, I cried, and I hoped while I read this story. Ms. LeClaire is a wonderful storyteller who drew me in and did not let go until I read the last page. I definitely recommend this book to other readers.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
Ms. LeClair has graced my favorites shelf since I discovered her four years ago. Her heroes are every little girls fantasy and her heroines are what ever women hopes to be. HAPPY! She makes it okay for the adult we’ve all become to escape into the child that lives inside. With a realistically modern design her characters remind of innocence. A time where life was easy and anything seemed possible. When the heart speaks everyone listens. With The Cowboy’s Runaway Bride the heart whisper strikes again.