I look forward to reading more in this series. I finally got around to reading the first book in Jackie North’s Farthingdale Ranch series, The Foreman and the Drifter, and what a lovely novel it was! Jamie and Leland were so very sweet together and you can’t beat that Wyoming setting. This story is such a warm, sweet, low-angst character-driven one and I can’t recommend it enough. I listened to the audiobook by Greg Boudreaux and it was excellent. Just click on the images to be taken to the book’s Amazon page.īest Laid Plans by Roan Parrish was so, so good! I absolutely adored it. My favourite three books of the month are below. And second, I was hard at work on my current WIP, Chasing Sunsets (more on that below), and because I was working on a bit of a tighter deadline than usual, I spent more time writing than reading. I did binge watch all seven seasons of Good Witch, though, and I loved it! Highly recommend. Why did I read so few books this month, you ask? Great question! I read six books in August and DNF’d one-but we won’t talk about that one because nobody cares.
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