Ranch Hand for Auction

by Kimberly Krey

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Can this dimple-sporting, woman-courting cowboy win Meg's heart?

Meg left her Montana home, earned her bachelor’s degree, and lived out her dream of selling her art. But now her life is in limbo. Stay in Colorado with a man who won’t commit, or call it quits and move back to her home state.

Her answer comes in the form of Jake Billings, a woman-courting, dimple-sporting cowboy her father bids on at the county fair. The auctioned ranch hand is meant to help Meg process grapes on her father’s land, but along the way, he steals her heart.

Can Meg trust that this cowboy is all that he seems, or will she be drawn back to the man she left behind?

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Book Details

Genre

Contemporary Romance

Subgenre

Western / Cowboy (frontier-era or modern ranch settings)

Audience

Adult

Bell Peppers

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Profanity

2 Mild

Violence

1 None

Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco

2 Mild

Publication Date

June 27, 2016

Language Versions

English

Narration Type

Human

Fiction Form

Novella

Editorial Reviews

"Highly recommended for those who love a good, clean, contemporary "cowboy" romance." lilacqueen75 on Amazon

Enjoyable read, from auction to romance

Meg returns home to harvest the grapes on her father’s farm, and turn it into juice. At an auction, she purchases a week of work from Jake Billings. Attraction mounts between the two, but she has a boyfriend in Montana who won’t commit.

Somewhat disappointing.

I selected “Ranch Hand for Auction” after having read Ms. Krey’s outstanding novel, “Rough Edges,” for which I awarded five stars. I expected that, even though this work is a novella of fewer than 100 pages in length, I would find the same high-quality writing as in the previous full-blown novel. In this, I was disappointed.It takes a different skillset to create an outstanding novella than it does to create a well written three-hundred-page novel. Meg Bolton and Jake Billings were the protagonists in the novella. Yet, their character development was sorely lacking in comparison to Allie Emerson and Braden Fox in the novel. At the same time, the pace of the story seemed rushed. Admittedly, it is not fair to compare these characterizations because, with the novel, the author had three times the space to flesh out the story and its characters. I believe that this is the reason authors of great novellas need different skill sets than authors of novels.Don’t get me wrong. Ms. Krey created an acceptable quick-read novella. But it did not reach the same high quality of work that would earn the accolades she received with the novel. If, however, her objective was to create an excellent story to be read in an afternoon, she achieved her goal, and I congratulate her. Incidentally, the editors missed the error in using the word “into” when it should have been “in to.” Three stars!

Great read.

I love reading this one. It’s such a great, sweet clean love story. I love me some handsome cowboys. I don’t think you will go wrong if you buy this one.

Instalove

Redemption, there's such a thing after three years of settling. I just loved it, family and home, and something more pure and truer.

Bought Love at the Auction

This is a sweet romantic story between Meg and Jake. Meg and her dad attend an auction to buy someone to help do the chores for a week. When Meg and Luke lock eyes, she knows this is the bid she must win and does. When Jake arrives and they spend the week picking grapes and making juice the romance begins. This is a warm and fuzzy feel good story and I highly recommend it.