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The Accidental Bride (A Big Sky Romance #2)
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Denise Hunter (Goodreads Author)
When a wedding reenactment turns real, Shay finds she's an accidental bride.
Shay Brandenberger is raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana, on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. Despite the hard work, she can't seem to keep her head above water--and now the bank is threatening to foreclose. She prays for a miracle, but the answer she receives i...more
Shay Brandenberger is raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana, on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. Despite the hard work, she can't seem to keep her head above water--and now the bank is threatening to foreclose. She prays for a miracle, but the answer she receives i...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
January 3rd 2012
by Thomas Nelson Publishers
(first published January 1st 2011)
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You know what they say... the past will usually come back to haunt you when you least expect it...
Shay Brandenberger is trying on a wedding dress in Lucy's store to play the part in a Founders Day reinactment ceremony when rodeo superstar Travis McCoy walked into Lucy's store and back into Shay's life. Seeing Shay again brings back so many memories and Shay seeing him again brings back only one, the day he left her at the altar.
When Travis was asked to participate in the play alongside Shay he...more
Shay Brandenberger is trying on a wedding dress in Lucy's store to play the part in a Founders Day reinactment ceremony when rodeo superstar Travis McCoy walked into Lucy's store and back into Shay's life. Seeing Shay again brings back so many memories and Shay seeing him again brings back only one, the day he left her at the altar.
When Travis was asked to participate in the play alongside Shay he...more
32 year old Shay Brandenberger's has had more than her fair share of heartbreak and disillusion. Left by her husband, she struggles to keep the family ranch running while also dealing with the issues of being a single mother. Add to this the fact that she lives in a small town and everyone knows the struggles she has. When she decides to play the bride in the Founder's Day parade she never imagined she would actually wind up married to Travis McCoy, a man who left her at the alter fourteen years...more
Shay Brandenberger's life has been filled with shattered dreams, disappointments and heartache. Her childhood was filled with hurt since she grew up poor and without. This was compounded because of being raised in the small town of Moose Creek. Now an adult Shay still struggles with feeling that everyone looks at her as a charity case, and whispers about all the bad things that have happened to her. Deep down Shay has a feeling that she is not special at all and she struggles constantly with try...more
“The Accidental Bride” by Denise Hunter was an enjoyable read. However, the premise of the story, that Shay and Travis McCoy, high school sweethearts were acting in a mock marriage as a part of a reenactment of times past but in reality the marriage was legal after a fourteen year lapse is ludicrous. Down-on-her-luck Shay was left at the altar, so to speak, by Travis during their teenage elopement. Travis wanted to be a rodeo star. Shay ends up marrying someone else, has a child, the husband lea...more
When Shay agrees to play the bride in her town's reenactment, she never thought she would end up kissing the pretend groom---Travis, her ex-fiance who left her at the altar when she was eighteen. When a confused minister turns in the wrong marriage certificate, their reenacted marriage vows become real. Determined to win Shay's trust, Travis convinces Shay to let him help her save her dying ranch and to give him five months to win her back. With no other option to support herself and her daughte...more
Denise Hunter's latest release and a follow-up to A Cowboy's Touch in her A Big Sky Romance series certainly has an attention-grabbing title. After all, how can two people really get married accidentally? Hunter acknowledges that these circumstances are a bit contrived and highly unlikely. Yet, for both the author and readers it is hard to resist such a storyline because it offers the potential for further blunders and moments of tension as the consequences of such an arrangement unfold.
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When high school sweethearts eloped, Travis McCoy left Shay Brandenberger on the courthouse steps in her wedding dress while he went to buy some rings at Kmart. Except he didn’t come back. Instead, he made his way to the pro rodeo circuit in Texas.
14 years later, Shay is the widowed mother of a 12-year-old daughter, Olivia. She lives on the Montana ranch her family has had for generations, but she’s about to lose it due to financial hardship. Meanwhile, she agrees to play the bride in Moose Cree...more
14 years later, Shay is the widowed mother of a 12-year-old daughter, Olivia. She lives on the Montana ranch her family has had for generations, but she’s about to lose it due to financial hardship. Meanwhile, she agrees to play the bride in Moose Cree...more
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I loved this one! The last thing Shay expects from the fake wedding ceremony is to wind up legally married! Especially to her one time love Travis! Either through a cruel twist of fate or God's Divine will, they are married and Travis has a proposal. Can she trust herself? Will she have enough faith in God to give her heart away again?
I loved all the characters in this book, especially the ones returning from the first book in the series. Shay is a strong woman who has been hurt too many times t...more
I loved all the characters in this book, especially the ones returning from the first book in the series. Shay is a strong woman who has been hurt too many times t...more
Shay Brandenberger is a single mom who tries to keep up with the demands of keeping her ranch, raising a daughter and she is at her wit’s end about her financial troubles.
To add insult to injury, she crossed path with the person she hates the most---her high school sweetheart who left her once at the Altar!
Until fate brought them again together and their make-believe wedding turns out to be real!
This is a feel good romance tale with a bit of drama, lots of humor and tension between the two main...more
To add insult to injury, she crossed path with the person she hates the most---her high school sweetheart who left her once at the Altar!
Until fate brought them again together and their make-believe wedding turns out to be real!
This is a feel good romance tale with a bit of drama, lots of humor and tension between the two main...more
The last time Shay saw Travis McCoy, he left her at the courthouse steps, never to return for their wedding vows. Now Shay runs into Travis more than a decade later in her home town. Shay has returned there to raise her daughter on the family's farm. Travis is in town to help out his parents farm as they are out of the country. Hoping to avoid any contact with Travis, Shay is in for a surprise when during the Founders Day festivities she, playing the pioneer bride is 'wed' to Travis! Good thing...more
I've already met Shay when I read (and loved) a previous book by Denise Hunter, featuring Abigail and Wade. Wade's and Shay's daughters are friends. It was fun to peek into Abigail's and Wade's life after the last book ended. But this story is Shay's.
Shay was stood up at the altar by Travis, her high school boyfriend, who left for the rodeo. By the time he figured he goofed, Shay had remarried. Now, 14 years later, Shay is divorced and her ex-husband has died. She's single parenting and running...more
Shay was stood up at the altar by Travis, her high school boyfriend, who left for the rodeo. By the time he figured he goofed, Shay had remarried. Now, 14 years later, Shay is divorced and her ex-husband has died. She's single parenting and running...more
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Accidental Bride by Denise Hunter. The title of this book may sound like those typical romance that you can finish in 2 hours time, but you’re in for a surprise if you’re expecting a typical romance. This is no typical romance or a chic-lit. It’s a Christian romance and have loads of moral values embedded in it. Among it is that trusting Him and living for His glory instead of just trying to please the people around you. This book also tells you tha...more
Accidental Bride by Denise Hunter. The title of this book may sound like those typical romance that you can finish in 2 hours time, but you’re in for a surprise if you’re expecting a typical romance. This is no typical romance or a chic-lit. It’s a Christian romance and have loads of moral values embedded in it. Among it is that trusting Him and living for His glory instead of just trying to please the people around you. This book also tells you tha...more
A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do--even if that means starting over again, all over again! Sometimes the surest path to true happiness is the one strewn with the most emotional obstacles. It's not an easy path to follow, but the reward at the end of the journey makes it all worthwhile. After having her young heart broken being left on the courthouse steps waiting for her groom-to-be, Shay Brandenberger eventually seeks fulfillment in a different relationship. Setting aside her hurt at h...more
I read A Cowboy's Touch last year and really enjoyed it, so I'd been highly anticipating the next chapter with The Accidental Bride! Unfortunately, my memory was a bit vague on the characters, so it took a little while to place who I was actually reading about. I did finally put everyone in their rightful place, I THINK!
While I didn't like this one quite as much as A Cowboy's Touch, I still really liked it. I couldn't help but like Shay, but she did get on my nerves at times. She was just SO INC...more
While I didn't like this one quite as much as A Cowboy's Touch, I still really liked it. I couldn't help but like Shay, but she did get on my nerves at times. She was just SO INC...more
Somehow I accidentally:) signed up for two blog tours with this book, The Accidental Bride, so I am reviewing it twice on my blog. If you didn't catch it the first time, check it out now!
MY REVIEW-I was blessed to be able to review the first book in this series, A Cowboy's Touch. The way I see it, this series is about people who have had mistakes in their past, and now want to make things right. In this book, Shay and Travis have met after Travis ran out on Shay many years ago. Shay has been mar...more
MY REVIEW-I was blessed to be able to review the first book in this series, A Cowboy's Touch. The way I see it, this series is about people who have had mistakes in their past, and now want to make things right. In this book, Shay and Travis have met after Travis ran out on Shay many years ago. Shay has been mar...more
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When Shay Brandenberger wanted to marry Travis McCoy, he left her alone on the courthouse steps to pursue his own dreams. Years later, Shay struggles to raise her daughter and keep her childhood home financially afloat following the death of her husband, Garrett Brandenberger. When Travis McCoy shows up in town, he is the last person Shay wants to spend time with. But when she finds herself accidentally, yet legitimately, married to him, Shay must decide which is riskier: To keep trying to save...more
"The Accidental Bride" by Denise Hunter is a sweet, heart warming romance set out in Montana; It has cowboys, it has the open plains, it has our Father in Heaven working behind the scenes, readers will fall in love with the characters and find themselves misty eye and smiling by the book's end.
I really enjoy reading this book and it was just one of those romances with a blend of God's word, weaved into a very delightful story about not basing one lives on other's opinions, overcoming heartaches...more
I really enjoy reading this book and it was just one of those romances with a blend of God's word, weaved into a very delightful story about not basing one lives on other's opinions, overcoming heartaches...more
THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE, the second in the Big Sky Romance series, while not completely plausible, it was completely enjoyable.
Shay Branderberger’s life has been filled with nothing but ups and downs, mostly downs. She struggles to keep her family ranch afloat while raising her daughter on her own. Left at the altar by her first love, rodeo star Travis McCoy, and then abandoned by her husband, Shay has sworn off men, that is, until she agrees to be the bride in a Founder’s Day reenactment. But when...more
Shay Branderberger’s life has been filled with nothing but ups and downs, mostly downs. She struggles to keep her family ranch afloat while raising her daughter on her own. Left at the altar by her first love, rodeo star Travis McCoy, and then abandoned by her husband, Shay has sworn off men, that is, until she agrees to be the bride in a Founder’s Day reenactment. But when...more
The Accidental Bride by Denise Hunter
Review by Kara Grant
What do you get when you leave a young bride at the courthouse when she is convinced you love her as much as she loves you? The answer? A very bitter and proud woman who overlooks that forgiveness is the best way to handle the situation. This then leads into another marriage that ends in divorce leaving her as a single mom and trying her best to move forward in Moose Creek, Montana. Shay is a devoted mom to Olivia and diligent rancher to t...more
Review by Kara Grant
What do you get when you leave a young bride at the courthouse when she is convinced you love her as much as she loves you? The answer? A very bitter and proud woman who overlooks that forgiveness is the best way to handle the situation. This then leads into another marriage that ends in divorce leaving her as a single mom and trying her best to move forward in Moose Creek, Montana. Shay is a devoted mom to Olivia and diligent rancher to t...more
Shay Brandenberger is the single mother of twelve-year-old Olivia. Her first engagement, to Travis McCoy, ended when he abandoned her outside the courthouse in her wedding dress, and he is back in town for the first time since then, looking after his parent’s ranch. Shay is strong-armed into playing the part of the bride in her town’s Founder’s Day wedding re-enactment, then finds that she has been totally set up, because Travis is the fake groom. Things get worse when the wedding is found to be...more
4 STARS
I felt for Shay in so many ways. I could not believe how Travis had left her on the court steps in her wedding dress with no money or change of clothes at 18.
Shay was trying on wedding dress for founder's day ceremony when Travis walked into the shop were she was trying it on. Shay was not happy to see him after all these years and especially wearing a wedding dress.
Travis had regretted leaving Shay and how he did it. He came back six months later and Shay was married to someone else and...more
I felt for Shay in so many ways. I could not believe how Travis had left her on the court steps in her wedding dress with no money or change of clothes at 18.
Shay was trying on wedding dress for founder's day ceremony when Travis walked into the shop were she was trying it on. Shay was not happy to see him after all these years and especially wearing a wedding dress.
Travis had regretted leaving Shay and how he did it. He came back six months later and Shay was married to someone else and...more
The Accidental Bride by Denise Hunter
Book 2: Big Sky Romance Series
Travis McCoy was going to marry Shay Monroe. They were at the courthouse ready to elope only Travis felt his dream of the rodeo pulling him and he ended up leaving Shay at the courthouse as he headed for Texas, to his friend Seth and the rodeo's.
Shay was devastated after Travis abandoned her. She married Garrett, a musician and they had a daughter, Olivia. After being abandoned a second time, Shay lived her life on her ranch try...more
Book 2: Big Sky Romance Series
Travis McCoy was going to marry Shay Monroe. They were at the courthouse ready to elope only Travis felt his dream of the rodeo pulling him and he ended up leaving Shay at the courthouse as he headed for Texas, to his friend Seth and the rodeo's.
Shay was devastated after Travis abandoned her. She married Garrett, a musician and they had a daughter, Olivia. After being abandoned a second time, Shay lived her life on her ranch try...more
If you've never read a Big Sky Romance novel by Denise Hunter, you are truly missing out. Denise writes her characters so well, you can't help but feel as though they are truly real people. In her latest, The Accidental Bride, Shay Brandenberger has experienced a life time of pain. First, her childhood love, left her standing at the altar when fear got the best of him and he simply headed west. Promising herself to never fall for another man again, Shay did the unthinkable and fell hard again.
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Reaching the end of the aisle, Shay gets the shock of her life, only to receive yet another one days later- that walk to the end of the aisle was REAL. She was really, truly married to the man she once loved and who broke her heart over a decade ago.
Now, as her debt looms over her head, she agrees to remain married to her Travis, for her daughter Olivia and their livelihood. What happens next, despite the protests of Shay herself, is a couple falling deeply in love in the months to come.
I LOVE...more
Now, as her debt looms over her head, she agrees to remain married to her Travis, for her daughter Olivia and their livelihood. What happens next, despite the protests of Shay herself, is a couple falling deeply in love in the months to come.
I LOVE...more
Shay Brandenberger carries a heavy load—a single mother trying to keep a working ranch afloat in hard times—not to mention the emotional baggage of being jilted at eighteen and then having a failed marriage. She has decided that men are not worth the trouble. Travis McCoy made his rodeo dreams come true but not without leaving a lot behind—namely Shay. He deeply regrets walking out on her on their wedding day all those years ago and realizes that he has never really gotten over her. When Travis...more
The Accidental Bride was a sweet, romantic read which I really enjoyed.
When a wedding reenactment turns real, Shay suddenly finds she’s an accidental bride.
Shay Brandenberger has been raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. In spite of all her work, Shay cannot seem to keep the ranch afloat, and now the bank is threatening to foreclose. Desperate, Shay prays for a miracle, but what she receives is anything but one.
When Shay a...more
When a wedding reenactment turns real, Shay suddenly finds she’s an accidental bride.
Shay Brandenberger has been raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. In spite of all her work, Shay cannot seem to keep the ranch afloat, and now the bank is threatening to foreclose. Desperate, Shay prays for a miracle, but what she receives is anything but one.
When Shay a...more
What a great read! Enjoy! Can you imagine being part of a reenactment wedding, and ending up being married? Shay Brandenberger has been very unlucky in Love, and Travis McCoy realizes what he gave up.
There are quite a few chuckles, and mishaps! Thought the book there is a great love of God and learning to lean on him. This is the second book in this series, but not necessary to have read the first one, although equally enjoyable. The characters of the first book are present here, welcome old fri...more
There are quite a few chuckles, and mishaps! Thought the book there is a great love of God and learning to lean on him. This is the second book in this series, but not necessary to have read the first one, although equally enjoyable. The characters of the first book are present here, welcome old fri...more
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My favorite books are always ones in which the characters go through struggles to get their happy endings. Well, not really just struggles... but intense, heart-breaking, emotional pain. And this is why I am addicted to Denise Hunter’s writing.
Her book The Accidental Bride was excellent. I was so exited to see that it was about Shay Brandenberger, a character from Denise Hunter’s first book in the Big Sky Romances series, A Cowboy’s Touch. She was referred to in the first book as a brokenhearte...more
Her book The Accidental Bride was excellent. I was so exited to see that it was about Shay Brandenberger, a character from Denise Hunter’s first book in the Big Sky Romances series, A Cowboy’s Touch. She was referred to in the first book as a brokenhearte...more
At First Sight: Shay Brandenberger has her own share of problems - like struggling to keep her family's ranch afloat and raising her 12 year old daughter on practically no money - and she doesn't need the worst mistake of her past coming back to haunt her.
But that's exactly what happens when rodeo star, Travis McCoy comes back to their hometown, Moose Creek, Montana, to take care of his parents' ranch.
Back when they were 18, Shay and Travis had eloped, but then Travis left her standing at the...more
But that's exactly what happens when rodeo star, Travis McCoy comes back to their hometown, Moose Creek, Montana, to take care of his parents' ranch.
Back when they were 18, Shay and Travis had eloped, but then Travis left her standing at the...more
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Denise Hunter is the award-winning author of 20 novels, including The Accidental Bride and Convenient Groom.
Denise lives in Indiana with her husband Kevin and their three sons. In 1996, Denise began her first book, a Christian romance novel, writing while her children napped. Two years later it was published, and she's been writing ever since. Her books often contain a strong romantic element, an...more
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Denise lives in Indiana with her husband Kevin and their three sons. In 1996, Denise began her first book, a Christian romance novel, writing while her children napped. Two years later it was published, and she's been writing ever since. Her books often contain a strong romantic element, an...more
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