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Courtney: I can't take another year of babysitting nieces and nephews while everyone else celebrates the holidays together when I want my own family so badly. Watching my bad boy baby brother propose to his girlfriend at our family Christmas dinner is the final straw. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but this is the last holiday season I do alone... moreCourtney: I can't take another year of babysitting nieces and nephews while everyone else celebrates the holidays together when I want my own family so badly. Watching my bad boy baby brother propose to his girlfriend at our family Christmas dinner is the final straw. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but this is the last holiday season I do alone. My first resolution for the new year? Find a husband! Blake: Spending holidays with my family and seeing everyone else married and having kids is killing me. It's not fair, I've been looking for something real of my own too. I want a family, a good woman to give my mom and dad some more grandkids to spoil. Someone I can share my life with and grow old with and spoil grandkids of our own with someday. I'm making my first new year resolution right now-- I'm getting married. When Blake and Courtney both find themselves suffering through another year of family holidays alone while they watch their married relatives living happily ever after around them, they each resolve to be married by the end of the new year. Once their search for the right person leads them to modern match-maker, Raven Swann, it's only a matter of time till they meet each other but will they manage to fulfill their new year's resolutions before the calendar runs out? less

Gavin: Options are slim and none in a town this size and I sure as hell ain't getting any younger. If I aim to find a wife and start a family, I'm gonna have to get creative. Moving out away from the family farm isn't an option, so hiring a professional match maker might be my ticket to finding a wife-- if she's willing to make the move. Jillian: I used to take pride in my single girl status but lately I'd rather be home on a weekend than out at a bar... moreGavin: Options are slim and none in a town this size and I sure as hell ain't getting any younger. If I aim to find a wife and start a family, I'm gonna have to get creative. Moving out away from the family farm isn't an option, so hiring a professional match maker might be my ticket to finding a wife-- if she's willing to make the move. Jillian: I used to take pride in my single girl status but lately I'd rather be home on a weekend than out at a bar. Truth of the matter is that I want what my girlfriends have now-- a husband and a family. I knew relocating might be a requirement to get my happily ever after when I signed up for an arranged marriage but Indiana is a long way from LA and I'm starting wonder if this was such a good move after all. less

"Are you saying you don't think I want to f*ck you?" Dorthy: When I decide to take a stab at a modern day arranged marriage leads me to an Alaskan air field, I have high hopes that I'll finally find my happily ever after-- and a man who isn't intimidated by a woman who can take care of herself. Coming face to face with my fiance for the first time sets off all the warning bells in my brain-- but it sets off entirely different alarms in other parts of my body... more"Are you saying you don't think I want to f*ck you?" Dorthy: When I decide to take a stab at a modern day arranged marriage leads me to an Alaskan air field, I have high hopes that I'll finally find my happily ever after-- and a man who isn't intimidated by a woman who can take care of herself. Coming face to face with my fiance for the first time sets off all the warning bells in my brain-- but it sets off entirely different alarms in other parts of my body. Is Barrett really the man I've been looking for? More importantly, am I what he's looking for? Barrett: Women are scarce in these parts, and the ones that are here never wanted anything to do with me before I came into my money. Now that I can finally afford the services of a professional match maker, I'm looking forward to the woman she and my closest friends have determined is right for me. Dorthy's a little slip of a thing and pretty as a picture with all that blonde hair and big blue eyes lighting up her face and I want her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. I just don't know why she'd want to get hitched to the likes of me when it's clear she doesn't need me for anything. I thought I finally had something to offer a wife, but this little firecracker of a woman can obviously hold her own-- so what does she need me for? *** This 26,000 word novella is the eight story in the arranged marriage romance series and also ties in with the novel BUSH. If you liked BUSH, you'll be happy to see the characters return as we follow Bear's journey to happily ever after! less