A Bride Rides Herd is the perfect title for Mary Connealy’s The 12 Brides of Summer novella.

Betsy Tanner is busy riding herd on a number of children and Matt steps in to help–since he’s related to them, too.

While not a sequel to last Christmas’ The Advent Bride, A Bride Rides Herd follows up on stories from several of Mary’s full length novel series and two books in particular: Calico Canyon and Husband Tree.

Mary couldn’t help herself.

“Once I thought of revisiting the old families from the Lassoed in Texas series, the Montana Marriages series and the Sophie’s Daughters series, I just got really excited. I love all of those folks!”

Mary explained how the stories all fit together. Fans will recognize and be excited to see what happens next:

“The first born son of Grace Reeves (Daniel already had five sons when Grace married him) finds and married The Husband Tree heroine Belle Tanner’s youngest daughter, Betsy.

Matt Reeves and Betsy Harden run the gauntlet of ranching and childcare (Betsy’s babysitting for three little girls with way too much Reeves blood flowing in their veins), because Betsy’s big sister Sarah married Mark Reeves and left Betsy to babysit while Mark and Sarah went on a cattle drive.

Matt and Betsy fall in love right under the drawn gun of famously overprotective Belle and Silas Harden.”

Obviously, the story is set in the same American west as Mary’s other books and that’s pretty much where it resembles her Christmas story.

“It’s similar in the sense it’s in the American west. And there are children running amok through the stories and there are plenty of sparks flying. But this is a more true western, set on a ranch, than The Advent Bride novella.”

The Advent Bride is available for 99 cents here.

You can purchase The 12 Brides of Summer Collection #2 featuring Amanda’s The Fourth of July Bride, Mary Connealy’s A Bride Rides Herd and Maureen Lang’s The Summer Harvest Bride, here.

Who is Mary Connealy?

Rita Finalist Mary Connealy writes romantic comedy with cowboys. She has been a finalist for a Christy Award and Inspirational Readers Choice Awards and a two time winner of the Carol Award.

Mary has over three quarters of a million books in print. She is the author of 41 books, including Now and Forever, the newly released book #2 of the Wild at Heart series, Kincaid Brides series, Trouble in Texas Series, also; Lassoed in Texas, Montana Marriages, and Sophie’s Daughters series and many other books.

A teacher and mother of four grown daughters, Mary lives on a ranch in eastern Nebraska with her very own romantic cowboy hero.

You can find her in a variety of places:

Facebook
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Seekerville;
Petticoats & Pistols
My Blog
My Website
My Newsletter

 

Some select Walmart stores will be carrying physical copies of Old West Summer Brides–a four-novella collection of stories from this series featuring the 12 Brides of Summer novellas written by Mary Connealy, Susan Page Davis, Davalynn Spencer and Miralee Ferrell starting July 14.

The ebook versions of The 12 Brides of Summer will be available in four ebooks with three stories in each. One will release the first of each summer month beginning in June and continuing in July, August and September. Mark your calendars for the first of the month, because you won’t want to miss a single one.

 

The entire collection will be released in summer 2016 in a deluxe edition book with actual pages.

And for those looking for a complete collection of The 12 Brides of Christmas novellas, they’ll be published in one book this October 2015.