Title: Handpicked Husband (Texas Grooms #1)
Author: Winnie Griggs
Pages: 282
Year: 2012 (previously published in 2005 as Lady’s Choice by Dorchester Publishing)
Publisher: Harlequin Love Inspired Historical
Regina Nash is faced with a choice. She either marries one of the three men her grandfather sent as suitors or she loses her nephew. Her grandfather thinks she needs to have a husband in order to raise a child as well as to look after her. She is living in the small town of Turnabout, Texas while her grandfather resides in Philadelphia. She wants nothing to do with marriage and likes her independent life just the way it is. However, she will do whatever it takes to keep her nephew so she reluctantly signs the contract brought by her father’s man, Adam Barr. Too bad Adam isn’t putting himself forward as a potential suitor as she thinks he would make a good father. She has known Adam for about seven years and had a crush on him when she was a teenager. Now, she has a strategy mapped out that will hopefully discourage the suitors to return to the East Coast and leave her in peace.
Adam Barr wants nothing more than for this three-week trial to be over. He is anxious to get back to Philadelphia to clear his name. He was wrongly convicted of embezzlement and spent six years in jail. He knows who the guilty party is, but he must find proof before making any accusations. He lost everything as a result of his imprisonment…his law practice, his home, his fiancée. He wants nothing to do with Regina Nash and her husband quandary, but he owes Judge Madison, Regina’s grandfather, as he is the only man in Philadelphia to stand by him throughout his legal troubles, still believing him innocent of the charges. Adam admires Regina’s spirit and dedication to her nephew, but he will uphold the contract no matter what as he gave the Judge his word. However, Regina’s decision must be made in two weeks and what she decides throws everyone for a curve.
Reading this book was a great way to spend my Saturday afternoon. The plot was not complicated, the characters were likeable and the outcome a forgone conclusion, but I sure enjoyed the journey getting to the end. This is a light historical romance with a Christian theme, which I endorse wholeheartedly. The next book in the series is titled, The Bride Next Door, and I will be reading and reviewing that book soon on this blog. This is a feel-good romance that will leave readers smiling at the end.
My rating is 4 stars.
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Handpicked Husband by Winnie Griggs
4 STARS

I was a smiling as I read it. This is a clean fun novel. I look forward to reading the rest of the characters stories in the Texas Grooms. setting is Texas 1894
Regina Nash has been the only mother her 6 year old nephew Jack knows. Now Jack's father is deceased and she wrote to her grandfather the Judge about adopting Jack.
Judge Madison has a plan that he thinks will work out for the good of Jack. He is sending three men to her and she has three weeks to decide and marry one of them. A lawyer friend of his Adam Barr to see to protecting her and make sure the contract is fullfilled. If not he will bring Jack back to his Judge and be in a boarding school.
Adam Barr has just got out of prison for stealing a clinet's money. He was innocent and soon as this deal is done he can go back and prove his innocense.
Regina is a photographer and drives a gypsy wagon with all her equipment. She takes people and plants photographs. She does not want to get married and have her freedom taken away from her.
Chance is the youngest suiter of the three he will get the saloon thats closed and money to fix it up and stock it.
Everett is British and for him his reward will be to own his own newspaper press.
Mitchell Parker will be given a house and a job as a teacher.
They all have to be willing to court her and the one she chooses will marry her and if he does not than all three of them will go home with empty hands.
Regina plans to make sure that the one she picks will refuse her offer. She is determined not to marry but does not want to give up Jack.
I was given this ebook to read in exchange for honest review from Netgalley.
09/03/2012 PUB Harlequin imprint Love Inspired Historical ( )