Nine Month Contract
Mountain Men Matchmaker #1
Amy Daws
Publisher: Canary Street Press
Publication date: Oct. 29, 2024
Genre: Romance
Rating:
Help Wanted: Grumpy mountain man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting as the form of communication and nosy brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request.
I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted their own version of a wanted ad to help me with my life.
But I can’t fault the results once the right woman lands in my lap.
Becoming a single father is not a decision I made lightly. In fact, it’s the biggest decision of my entire life.
Which is why when I interview Trista, I know she’s perfect.
She’s wild, she’s opinionated, she wears cowboy boots. Even my pet goat loves her…
She’s the exact type of person I was holding out for.
And to my great horror, I realize on our first night of attempting this baby-making dance—when the lights are low, the cheap wine is flowing and the home-insemination supplies are laid out on the kitchen counter—I want to do a lot more than just make her my surrogate.
I want to make her mine.
My thoughts…
I absolutely adored this book!
Now, I need to be honest, I had my eyes set on Bad Boy Era, which is apparently the 4th book in the series. Since each book features a different couple, I shrugged it off and was ready to dive in. That is, until my friend caught wind of what I was doing and immediately put the breaks on my plans. She was adamant that I had to read the series from start to finish. Since, she’s never given me such demands before, I decided to listen to her advice and grab the first book in the series to read. Let me just say, I owe this 5 star read to her!
Everything about this book just worked for me. From the main characters, to the side characters, to the animals Trista kept bringing home, I was HOOKED. Trista isn’t some sassy-mouthed strong female, but she’s not broken either. She’s just your average girl trying to make it in life. She decides to be a surrogate because she needs the money. What she ends up with is a contract that not only gives her that money, but also puts her up in an amazing apartment on a mountain with a barn for her eccentric rotation of exotic rescue animals she helps out. We’re talking alpacas, goats, pigs, mini horses, you name it Trista is bringing it home with her. Her big heart for animals is the whole reason she’s doing this whole surrogacy thing, because she wants to start up her own exotic animal rescue. A safe haven for animals that your typical rescue would turn away because they aren’t a cat or a dog. I just found Trista to be an amazing character and I really wish she was real so that we could be best friends.
Wyatt was not slouch in the character department either. He is this strong quiet figure who is always there for his family. Whether it’s singing his head off at a Taylor Swift concert with his niece, or getting in a bar brawl to defend his brothers who are throwing down. Wyatt was a character that you could always depend on. So when Trista comes into his life, he doesn’t become protective of her just because she’s growing his baby in her womb, he’s protective of her because that’s just the kind of person he is. The moment she agreed to have a baby for him, Trista became part of his family.
There are also the side characters of Wyatt’s family who is in the picture a lot. Wyatt and two of his three brothers live up in kind of a communal living situation on the mountain that Wyatt owns. So, Calder and Luke are around a lot and those two are hilarious. Calder is the wild card who seems like he flies by the seat of his pants every day and lives life to the fullest. While Luke seems to be a mix of Wyatt and Calder, more reserved, but still up for some fun. So you can imagine the dynamics with the three together in a room.
This story hit me hard in the feels and had me smiling and crying at times. The author wrote the story in a way that I was able to picture everything she was throwing at me like I had a mini movie playing in my head the entire time. I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, the banter, and sexy times. This truly was a well rounded story that had me staying up way too late to read, and was the first thing I would pick up when I woke up.
