| Title | : | Marriage Not Included |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 |
| Publication | : | First published May 22, 2013 |
As a VP and heir apparent to HN Seeds, the family business, Miles unknowingly holds the future of Lauren’s farm in his hands. Lauren’s looking for anything but a romance. She’s got too much on her plate to risk the distraction. But he plays the one card Lauren can’t resist, family. Miles needs Lauren and her daughter to feel at home. And Lauren needs Miles and his large extended family more than she knows. But can she forgive the one betrayal that would ruin all of her plans for the future?
When an organic farming activist meets the heir apparent for the corporate farm that’s buying up the small farmers all around her, she only agrees to one date to thank him for a kindness to her daughter. Will she be able to stand firm when he offers her the world, in exchange for selling the only home they’ve ever had?
Marriage Not Included Reviews
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Endearing and heartwarming! Well written characters that I could relate to with enough romance to keep me turning the page. Ms. Cahoon has a way of drawing the reader in and keeping them in her well written world right up until the end!
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This was an adorable story. I fell in love with both Lauren and Miles - and even Jonas found a place in my heart.
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Lauren Simpson, the heroine, is a single mom with a six-year-old daughter. Lauren has lost her parents, lost her husband, is living with her father-in-law and doesn’t believe she can be happy. Bad things happen when she is happy.
Miles Hamilton, the hero, is the sibling that has left the town of Boise to do his own thing. His father has called him back to work in the family business, a large agricultural seed company that is buying up small farms. They have their sights set on acquiring Lauren’s father-in-law’s farm.
Lauren and Miles, through their many conflicts, do not lose sight of their feelings. Through their recognition that they must share and communicate their feelings, rather than running away, they show how to resolve conflicts and grow a caring relationship.
This story could have been a dull repeat of the formulaic story of conflict between two families with different agendas. Instead, the author Lynn Cahoon has written an involved and complex story about a single parent’s struggle to find happiness and security for her daughter and herself. The characters in the story are true to life with many of the problems families have and the struggle they endure to surmount them. A very good read that will keep you turning the pages. -
I always enjoy a book where families and love are more important than work and money. Lauren,carries a load of single mother, ailing father-in-law and his farm, her job and trying to keep a large corporation from trying to buy up the farm and land. Miles returns home at the request of his father to take over the families large see company trying to buy up farmland. He has struggled and failed to meet his father's expectations all his life. Miles is a caring, thoughtful man attempting to win the woman he loves, while at the same time make his father happy.
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Nice, quick read. Enjoyable romance.
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In Marriage Not Included, Lauren and her daughter Emma meet Miles while working at the family produce booth at the farmer's market selling organic produce from the family farm. Emma's father died in the service to our country and life hasn't been easy for the young widow who lives with her father-in-law on the family farm in Idaho.
Miles has just returned home to work in the family seed company that is not interested in being organic and has Lauren's family farm on a list of properties needed to seed research. He finds himself conflicted about his job at the company and his feelings for Lauren and Emma.
The style of writing is excellent and the emotions and conflict developed showing how both main characters feel with Emma being a delight and added bonus to the plot. The romance is realistic, sweet and the big question is if these two with such different points of view on green issues can resolve them to find a happily ever after ending. -
I loved The Bull Rider's Brother, and was excited to get to read another Lynn Cahoon book.
Loved Miles from the first time he steps onstage. His motivation was one I could identify with. Lauren was good, but she just didn't really fly off the page for me. A single mom of one, going to school, teaching...a lot like me when I was younger...maybe that's why she didn't excite me!
One thing that kept this from a Five Star for me was the farming stuff. I AM a farmer and there was a lot of stuff that was ...dull. Sorry, Ms. Cahoon!
What I did like a lot is what authoress Cahoon does so well--family, small town atmosphere and love.
Ms. Cahoon is so talented, it's hard not to love everything she writes, and although this one wasn't my all-time favorite, I will read anything this author puts out! -
This was enjoyable to read with great characters I could identify with and sticky situations I read eagerly onward to see how they would resolve. I thought the times when Miles and Lauren argued were sometimes too contrived, but was rooting for them all the way.
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Great read for lazy weekend or at the beach!
Great read. A recommended read for on the beach or a lazy weekend. Book relates to all modern people; shows the everyday dramas that conflict with life; such as kids, jobs and school!, -
Loved it!!!!
