Farmer Needs a Wife
Australian Brides #1
Ann B Harrison
Reviewed by Helen
This is a sweet and thoroughly enjoyable romance, set in the small Australian outback town of Casey Plains it is a small town that needs new people to move there, as the towns populations it is dwindling. When freelance journalist Billie Holden’s car breaks down on her way to a new life in Cairns, this could be the start of a new life for the town as well as herself.
Billie has just been burnt badly by her fiancé and it is time to move on, a sea change perhaps in Cairns, but she decides to take the inland road through the outback, when her car breaks down and she is desperately trying to find the mechanic she is directed to the pub and it is not long before she finds herself in a contest, for farmers to find a wife, this was not going to happen but when she meets Jeff the mechanic and a deal is made, Billie is finding that Casey Plains and its people are maybe what she needs.
Jeff Houston is living on the family farm and loving it now, but there were times that things were different and when the local mayor and pub owner Beth starts a contest to help bring more people to town he cannot let her down. Meeting Billie opens up a lot of feelings for Jeff and the deal they make see them spending two weeks together, which leads to more and the more time they are together the he wants to be with Billie, could this be his future bride?
This story is beautifully written and takes in the heart of the town and the problems that they are having, there are so many awesome characters living here and I do hope we get to know them even more in other books in the series. Billie is just the person the town needs to boost it, she has a heart of gold and is strong and caring but trust isn’t easy for her, and Jeff has issues from the past that play a part in their relationship, but when cupid’s arrow strikes it strikes and their journey to a HEA is wonderful. This is a story that I highly recommend lots of emotion and very moving.
4 stars
Published February 26th 2021
