About the book:
At Love's Bidding (Bethany House, December 2015)
She sells priceless antiques. He sells livestock by the pound. Is he really the man to make a bid for her heart?
After helping her grandfather at their Boston auction house, Miranda Wimplegate discovers she's accidentally sold a powerful family's prized portrait to an anonymous bidder. Desperate to appease the people who could ruin them forever, they track it to the Missouri Ozarks and make an outlandish offer to buy the local auction house and all its holdings before the painting can move again.
Upon crossing the country, however, Miranda and her grandfather discover their new auction house doesn't deal in fine antiques, but in livestock. And its frustratingly handsome manager, Wyatt Ballentine, is annoyed to discover his fussy new bosses don't know a thing about the business he's single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with more heads of cattle than they can count---but no mysterious painting---Miranda and Wyatt form an unlikely but charged partnership to try and prevent a bad situation from getting worse.
She sells priceless antiques. He sells livestock by the pound. Is he really the man to make a bid for her heart?
After helping her grandfather at their Boston auction house, Miranda Wimplegate discovers she's accidentally sold a powerful family's prized portrait to an anonymous bidder. Desperate to appease the people who could ruin them forever, they track it to the Missouri Ozarks and make an outlandish offer to buy the local auction house and all its holdings before the painting can move again.
Upon crossing the country, however, Miranda and her grandfather discover their new auction house doesn't deal in fine antiques, but in livestock. And its frustratingly handsome manager, Wyatt Ballentine, is annoyed to discover his fussy new bosses don't know a thing about the business he's single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with more heads of cattle than they can count---but no mysterious painting---Miranda and Wyatt form an unlikely but charged partnership to try and prevent a bad situation from getting worse.
My review:
This was a very enjoyable and amusing story I had a hard time putting down! I loved the characters, from shy Miranda who doesn't want attention drawn to herself to impetuous Wyatt who sometimes acts without thinking, yet cares a lot about his family and friends. I also loved how he encouraged Miranda to trust God and also to believe in herself. Miranda also questioned why bad things happen and how God could allow them, but ultimately she had to decide whether she would trust God and what her own response would be to circumstances she couldn't control. The setting of an auction house was unique and it was pretty funny to see Miranda and her grandfather try to figure out how to sell livestock when they're used to selling antiques. Her grandfather was definitely a character and got into all sorts of trouble. There were some great romantic moments. I would definitely recommend this wonderfully written story for fans of historical and romantic fiction!
I received this book free from Litfuse Publicity in exchange for an honest review.
I received this book free from Litfuse Publicity in exchange for an honest review.
About the author:
Regina Jennings is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University with a degree in English and a history minor. She is the author of A Most Inconvenient Marriage, Sixty Acres and a Bride, and Caught in the Middle, and contributed a novella to A Match Made in Texas.
Regina has worked at the Mustang News and First Baptist Church of
Mustang, along with time at the Oklahoma National Stockyards and various
livestock shows. She now lives outside Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with
her husband and four children.
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After
a cross-country trip to track down a sold painting that could ruin her
family's business forever, Miranda Wimplegate forms an unlikely but
charged partnership with livestock auctioneer Wyatt Ballentine in Regina
Jennings' At Love's Bidding. Miranda
and her grandfather discover their new auction house doesn’t deal in
fine antiques, but in livestock. And its frustratingly handsome manager,
Wyatt, is annoyed to discover his fussy new bosses don’t know a thing
about the business he’s single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with more
heads of cattle than they can count–but no mysterious painting–Miranda
and Wyatt must try and prevent a bad situation from getting worse.
Connect with Regina: website, Twitter, Facebook
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