Handpicked Husband
Texas Grooms Series, Book 1
Love Inspired Historical, September 2012
Can she drive away not one, but three suitors?
Free-spirited photographer Regina Nash is ready to try. But unless she marries one of the gentlemen her grandfather has sent for her inspection, she'll lose custody of her nephew. So she must persuade them - and Adam Barr, her grandfather's envoy - that she'd make a thoroughly unsuitable wife.
Adam isn't convinced. Regina might be unconventional, but she has wit, spirit and warmth. His job was to make sure Regina chose from the men he escorted to Texas - not to marry her himself!
Can they overcome the secrets in her past, and the shadows in his, to find a perfect future together?
Texas Grooms: In search of their brides…
RT Booklovers Magazine
4.5 Stars "First published in 2005 as Lady's Choice and now revised, the novel successfully kicks off the Texas Grooms series, introducing complex, sympathetic characters with interesting pasts."
RT Reviewers' Choice Award Winner
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Author Disclaimer:
In the interest of full disclosure I want to let you know that this is a refresh of a story originally released in 2005 as Lady's Choice under Dorchester's Leisure Books imprint. In addition to the hero, the story features three bachelors who came to Texas as potential grooms for my heroine. I always wanted to give each of these gentlemen stories of their own, but Dorchester and I parted ways before that could happen. I discussed this with my current editor and I was excited to find her as enthusiastic about the idea as I was. We decided to move forward with the idea, but we wanted to make that first story, now out of print, available again to those who may have missed it the first time. So I did some fairly extensive rewrites, both to fit within the guidelines of the Love Inspired Historical line and to 'fix it up' based on things I've learned in the seven years that have passed since I first wrote this story.
So that's how Handpicked Husband came about, and it becomes the first of my seven book Texas Grooms series.