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Meredith Fayett needed to marry someone before the week was out or she would lose her ranch. It sounded simple, so ranch hand Chance Stevens agreed to take on the job, in spite of his friend Marty's warnings that it could only lead to trouble. But even Marty, a loyal though opinionated sidekick, couldn't have predicted the mayhem that ensues when his own eccentric relatives appear on the scene, dragging Chance, Marty, and Meredith into the latest skirmish in a long-running family feud. What follows is a hilarious tangle involving an emerald ring, a fearsome aunt, a scheming suitor, and a team of runaway mules-by the end of which Chance finds that even a marriage just on paper has its complications, and that it never hurts to have a good sidekick.
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8/30/2020: This is just as much fun on reread. Marty's dry humor practically makes the pages crackle sometimes (“The roses didn't want me to leave, judging by how they held onto me” and so on) and his dysfunctional family is pathetically hilarious. Nothing like a feud to keep folks on their toes...
5/27/2018: This book was so much fun to read! I absolutely loved the humorous voice of the narrator, whose comparisons are flat brilliant and had me chuckling on just about every page. Chance and Meredith's story does not go the way you would expect it to in the least, and Marty the narrator hardly expects that to be his fault—but it is. Highly recommended.