Paperback Review: The Shepherd's Daughter (Dry Bayou Brides #1) by Lynn Winchester

 

Blurb: 

Welcome to Dry Bayou, Texas, where Southern Charm meets the Wild West!

Ray MacAdams and Billy Ducharme have been best friends since her family moved to his ranch fourteen years ago to start a new sheep ranching operation.

Through thick and thin, good and bad, fire and rain, their friendship has only gotten stronger—so strong that nothing could possibly break their bond, a bond that for Ray has suddenly changed from simply friends to something deeper… Something that makes her dream of days and nights beside the man she loves, something that makes her wish she were more than just the shepherd’s daughter.

Then Billy’s mail order bride arrives.

The mail-order bride is everything Ray is not: refined, well-mannered, and pretty as a porcelain tea cup. How can Ray possibly compete for Billy’s heart when his new bride is everything he could want in a proper wife?

Can the shepherd’s daughter convince her childhood friend that their love for one another goes beyond friendship, or will Billy marry the pretty interloper and leave Ray out to pasture?

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My Review - 4 of 5 stars - 

This was a quick sweet read. Ray and Billy knew each other from childhood. Ray's family worked for Billy's. As they grew up, their feelings began to change. I loved Ray's determination to let Billy know her true feelings, with some support and encouragement from her friends. Billy was polite in his dealings with the mail-order bride his father ordered for him, but he was too honest once he finally admitted his feelings for Ray to himself.

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