ARC Review: ‘Billionaire Lumberjack’s Bride’ by Gwyn McNamee
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Billionaire Lumberjack's Bride
by Gwyn McNameeSeries: Lumberjacks in Love #3
Published by Self-Published on February 29, 2024
SubGenres: Contemporary Romance
Format: eArc
Pages: 350
Source: the author
Audience: 18+/Adult
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A reclusive billionaire who needs a wife. A woman with no other options. Two lost souls forced together on the mountain…I never wanted my family’s money or the trappings that came with it.The mountain offered me refuge from it all.A life filled with hard manual labor, fresh air, and freedom.Until one unexpected visit from my father’s lawyer changes everything.All we’ve built will fall into the hands of a monster…Unless I find a wife.Fast.One who can handle living in a single room cabin on a desolate mountain.With a man who has no intention of ever touching her.Let alone being an actual husband.The mail-order bride service offers the perfect solution to my unusual problem.This woman they’re sending needs money.I need to be hitched in only a handful of weeks.Nothing but a simple business arrangement.Once we both get what we want, we can go our separate ways.Except the longer we share my personal space…The more what I want changes and the fake relationship starts to feel very real…
Grab this steamy stand-alone about a reclusive, damaged, billionaire, the woman he pays to marry him, and what they discover when they’re forced together in his cabin with deep wounds and attraction they can’t deny!
I had never read a Lumberjack Romance until Gwyn McNamee’s Lumberjacks in Love series, and these will now be my new obsession, especially when they have reclusive, grumpy billionaire lumberjacks like Silas Bolton. It’s also the first book I’ve read that has it where the MMC uses a Mail Order Bride service to find himself a wife. It was the only way he could find a wife because he’d secluded himself for fifteen years and rarely spoke with people. He tended also to scare people. Gwyn McNamee definitely hooked me from the beginning, and I had a hard time putting down my Kindle because I needed to know why Silas hid himself and why he was upset that he had to marry Lila at first, especially when his late father’s lawyer told him he had to find a wife.
Once I found out Silas’s backstory, I knew it was going to be an emotional one, and it was going to break my heart. I knew it broke Lila’s heart, too. Silas needed to find someone like Lila, who would push his buttons and make him open up. She also made him face the problems that he was running from, even when she came face-to-face with the man who had Silas running away fifteen years ago. Sila may have been a grump at first and confused with Lila, but this man wouldn’t let anyone harm his wife. Even his dog, Whiskey, took a liking to her, which surprised Silas because his dog was very judgmental with people.
I loved Lila’s character, immediately when she was introduced. I knew she had a backstory, too, on why she decided to become a mail-order bride, and it wasn’t what I was expecting. I loved the banter between her and Silas and how she made him confused at times. She may have been scared of Silas at first, but eventually, she realized this man needed comfort and love, and she definitely gave it to him.
I’m so glad I decided to read this book and now to read more Mail Order Bride books after reading this one from Gwyn McNamee. Also, I need more authors to put animals in their books, especially dogs like Whiskey. I’m an animal lover and I love when dogs like Whiskey star in the books because it just melts my heart, especially with how protective Whiskey is of his human best friend and his new wife. Sometimes, the animals steal the show from the characters, and Whiskey will definitely be a fave after reading this book.
I give this book 4.5 stars and can’t wait to read more in this series from Gwyn McNamee.
Standalone or Part of Series: It’s part of the Lumberjacks in Love series, but each book can be read as a standalone. I’ve read the first and now third book and wasn’t at all confused when reading out of order. This is coming from someone who usually reads in order.
Would I recommend this book? Yes. I definitely recommend this book if you enjoy reading Contemporary Romance with grumpy, secluded billionaire lumberjacks who find their match through a Mail Order Bride service.
Trope(s)/Element(s):
🪓Lumberjack Romance
🪓Small Town Romance
🪓Billionaire Romance
🪓Marriage of Convenience
🪓Mail Order Bride
🪓Forced Proximity
🪓Tattooed Hero
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About Gwyn McNamee
USA Today Best Selling author Gwyn McNamee is an attorney, wife, and mother. Originally from the Midwest, Gwyn relocated to her husband’s home town of Las Vegas in 2015 and is enjoying her respite from the cold and snow. Gwyn has been writing down her crazy stories and ideas for years and finally decided to share them with the world. She loves to write stories with a bit of suspense and action mingled with romance and heat.
When she isn’t either writing or voraciously devouring any books she can get her hands on, Gwyn is busy adding to her tattoo collection, golfing, and stirring up trouble with her perfect mix of sweetness and sarcasm (usually while wearing heels).
Gwyn’s debut novel, Savage Collision, the first book in The Hawke Family Series, was a 2017 Romance Writers of America Passionate Plumes Contest Finalist for excellence in contemporary steamy romance.
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