Merried
Misfit Brides #5
Jamie Farrell
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Jaycee at Sweet N Spicy Designs
Release Date: October 4, 2016
He’s the Spare Heir of Bliss’s
most famous jewelry shop
Max Gregory’s family is best known for creating and displaying the infamous Mrs. Claus diamond ring, but here in the bridal capital of the world, Max is best known for having a cursed love life. Not that he believes in curses. Or he didn’t, until he met her.
She’s the daughter of a notorious jewel thief
Merry Silver's parents have wreaked havoc on her life. After her last romantic disaster—thanks, Daddy—she’s fleeing the country for a chance at normal. But first, she has to avoid her favorite ex-boyfriend while she gets her mom married off. Again.
And their Christmas miracle might be a second chance at love
Max was devastated when he discovered why Merry disappeared last year. Now she's back in Bliss for a wedding, and her father may be after his family’s most prized possession. But is it the diamond Max is worried about? Or is he afraid of losing the only woman who’s ever made him want to settle down?
Either way...the family jewels are in danger
Max Gregory’s family is best known for creating and displaying the infamous Mrs. Claus diamond ring, but here in the bridal capital of the world, Max is best known for having a cursed love life. Not that he believes in curses. Or he didn’t, until he met her.
She’s the daughter of a notorious jewel thief
Merry Silver's parents have wreaked havoc on her life. After her last romantic disaster—thanks, Daddy—she’s fleeing the country for a chance at normal. But first, she has to avoid her favorite ex-boyfriend while she gets her mom married off. Again.
And their Christmas miracle might be a second chance at love
Max was devastated when he discovered why Merry disappeared last year. Now she's back in Bliss for a wedding, and her father may be after his family’s most prized possession. But is it the diamond Max is worried about? Or is he afraid of losing the only woman who’s ever made him want to settle down?
Either way...the family jewels are in danger
Max Gregory was used to
being a man of many hats, though he was looking forward to once again being a
man who wore pants. With only a layer of cotton between the winter air and his
manhood, he was in danger of freezing his nuts off.
He snagged the tiara
off the passenger seat of his sister-in-law’s car. The piece was bent and
missing several gems, but the crazy-ass, wedding-crashing owl had dropped it
back on the stage on its second pass to dive-bomb the festival. Max had rescued
the old costume jewelry before the owl could snag it again.
The gems might’ve been
fake, but Gramps had designed the tiara for Gran to match the Mrs. Claus
Diamond engagement ring that had made With This Ring famous. It deserved a
place of honor in the store.
Especially now that
Gramps and Gran were both gone.
Keys in hand, Max
turned the corner to the rear of the building and stopped dead in his tracks.
Merry Silver—if that
was really her name—had her arms crossed over her dark, puffy coat, one hip
cocked, and a glower that suggested she’d be happy to use her boot to crush
Max’s frozen balls to bits.
His heart twisted,
adding a kick to the sudden hollow ache in his chest. He tightened his grip on
the tiara and mimicked Merry’s stance.
Of the two of them, he
was more worthy of doing the glowering. But instead of lighting up with
righteous outrage or fear for his family’s jewels, his bones sagged with a
relief he didn’t want to acknowledge.
Merry’s eyes flared
wide for a fraction of a second before her glower and her arms dropped.
Had she been expecting
someone else?
She had a smart phone
in one gloved hand and her other hand balled into a fist.
“What have we here?”
Max said softly.
The desire to check the
door to his family’s jewelry shop warred with an instinct to not take his eyes
off her for a microsecond. Not even to blink.
“My mom’s getting
married,” Merry said. “She needs a ring.”
“Most people would go
to the front door,” he said. “In the daytime.”
Her head cocked, and
the ruddy knit hat hiding her ebony hair tilted. She took another step closer
to his family’s store. “I’m sure most people would.”
Max angled toward her
and caught a hint of spring flowers. Soft, fragile, feminine. She hadn’t
changed her shampoo since he’d last known her.
She shifted closer to
With This Ring.
Her cheekbones were
sharper, her nose more delicate, her body more clothed than when he’d seen her
last.
And unlike those two
months he’d known her—when, he’d discovered after hours of research into her
father, he hadn’t actually known her at all—she apparently didn’t feel the need
to pussyfoot around what she wanted now.
Had she been anyone else,
he would’ve pinned her down while calling the cops.
But Max didn’t trust
himself to touch her. Because too big of a part of him was drinking in the
sight of her whole, alive, and seemingly unharmed.
He twisted to follow
her. “Most women want to pick their own wedding ring.”
“When you’ve had seven
or eight, the details matter less.”
Seven or—Jesus.
He hadn’t looked into her mother.
If she even had one.
“She kill the first six or seven?” Max asked.
Her straight, dark
eyebrows lowered, and he had the distinct impression they’d just put him in his
place before she ever opened her mouth. “Only two. And not in any ways
punishable by law.”
I love the quirky town of Bliss and all the couples who have found love there. Max and Merry's story is as unique as all the others and had me flipping pages waiting to see what would happen next. They are perfect for each other, excerpt for the tiny issue of Merry's dad being a jewel thief and Max's family owning a jewelry store. There are a lot of secrets that Max is not aware of, but as they Merry opens up to him, he realizes how much Merry has sacrificed for her family. There humor and heartbreak to go with the romance and undeniable chemistry between them. While not necessary to read the previous books in the series, I do highly recommend them.
I received an ARC from the publisher for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review, all conclusions are my own.
Jamie Farrell
writes fun contemporary romances with quirky characters and lots of heart. She
believes love, laughter, and bacon are the most powerful forces in the
universe. Her debut novel, Southern Fried
Blues, was a finalist in the National Readers' Choice Awards and the
National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards, and the first book in her Misfit
Brides series received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called Blissed a “marvelous romantic comedy.
A
native Midwesterner, Jamie has lived in the South the majority of her adult
life. When she's not writing, she and her military hero husband are busy
raising three hilariously unpredictable children.
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