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Brooke Culpepper resigned herself to spinsterhood when she turned down the only marriage proposal she’d likely ever receive to care for her sister and cousins. After her father dies, a distant cousin inherits the estate, becoming their guardian, but he permits Brooke to act in his stead.
Heath, Earl of Ravensdale detests the countryside and is none too pleased to discover five young women call the dairy farm he won, and intends to sell, their home.
Desperate, pauper poor, and with nowhere to go, Brooke proposes a wager. Heath's stakes? The farm. Hers? Her virtue. The land holds no interest for Heath, but Brooke definitely does, and he accepts her challenge. Will they both live to regret their impulsiveness?
This book has a headstrong, powerful lady as a lead: Brooke Culpepper. She has spent years looking after her sister and cousins (all female), doing everything in her power to keep her beloved farm going and providing enough money to feed the girls and the loyal staff members that still remain with her. Yet life decides to slap her in the face, as her careless cousin lost the deed of their property on a wager to the Earl of Ravensdale.
He, however, doesn't know who lives on the house and under what condition, so he goes to the farm to evict those who live there and sell the property. He arrives almost at the same time as the news of the new ownership reach the girls, and under many miscommunications, chaos ensues.
I found the book engaging, fun and interesting, and this book left me happy enough that I already purchased the next two books that follow it. I found the "falling in love" part a bit too hurried for my liking, but this book probably wouldn't have worked well without the reduced timeframe. As a first impression to Collette Cameron, this definitely did a good job. I'll be writing more reviews of her books in the future, starting with more of the Culpepper girls.
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