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To Be My Hardheaded Wife (Outrageous Brides & Undercover Billionaires Book 1) Kindle Edition
In this Protective Alpha Billionaire & Curvy Girl Feel-Good Small-Town Romance
Lincoln is just looking for someone that will annoy his parents… but he ends up finding so much more.
34-year-old Lincoln McManus is the strait-laced scion of one of the most prominent families in New York City and the CEO of McManus Enterprises. Alongside his three best friends, he leads the quiet life of a workaholic, diehard bachelor only occasionally shocking high society with his beard, tattoos, and a wild passion for fast bikes, the only chinks in his armor of seriousness.
He doesn't want a loveless union, and he is set on remaining single. An extensive net of power-hungry female relatives has other ideas on how he and the other three heirs should live their lives and constantly schemes to see them shackled to bitchy debutantes.
Lincoln and his friends manage to avert all the attempted, ill-fated matches until their overbearing families take a stand and force a clause on them: they must marry or lose everything they hold dear.
The course of action seems pretty straightforward, but if a stupid clause has to force their hands, then the guys are hellbent on finding the most outrageous brides out there.
And that's how Linc finds himself undercover in the small town of Contrary, Texas, staring his future in her wide, green eyes.
27-year-old pastry baker Audrey Honeycomb is the oldest of the Wilder Sisters, and she's been taking care of the family ranch and her younger siblings since she was a teen. Tough and stubborn through and through, she's a curvy spitfire in cowboy boots that doesn't have time for romance and wouldn't be caught dead asking a man for help.
That is, until a certain large, tattooed, bearded hottie moves to her dusty corner of the world and decides to turn his stern but loving attention to her and help her whether she likes it or not.
Can she keep her sealed-off heart safe from the imposing alpha set on making her his?
Dear Reader:
As usual with all of my books, in this sweet and heat-filled small-town romance, you get a scorching happily-ever-after featuring NO-cheating and no OW/OM drama, a down-on-her-luck curvaceous, plucky heroine, and an over-the-top possessive alpha hero head over heels in love with her at first sight!
You don't want to miss this hot little ride through the desert…
It's gonna be wild, fast, and full of steamy hot insta-love goodness ;)
So giddy-up, we're going to Contrary!
*Please note that the audio version of this book was featured on the podcast 'Read Me Romance' and is now presented in extended ebook-format with bonus chapters and epilogues included and that To Be My Hardheaded Wife is part of the ‘Outrageous Brides & Undercover Billionaires Series’, each one of the stories focuses only on one couple and there are no cliffhangers but going through them in order can provide a better reading experience.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 13, 2022
- File size1.4 MB
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She needs someone that can overcome her stubbornness. He’s the right man for the job.

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USA Today Bestselling Author Ember Flint is a hopeless romantic who loves tea, steamy unrealistic reads, and anything colored or scented lavender.
She writes sinfully-sweet feel-good stories that unfailingly end in a happily-ever-after where NO-cheating is allowed, the romance is over-the-top, the sizzle-factor is always high and the men are rough, dirty-talking, protective Alphas who are possessively-in-love with the sassy AF, heart-stealing women that they cherish.
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Outrageous Brides & Undercover Billionaires Series - Book #1
Lincoln is just looking for someone that will annoy his parents… but he ends up finding so much more.
Dear Reader:
As usual with all of my books, in this sweet and heat-filled small-town romance, you get a scorching happily-ever-after featuring NO-cheating and no OW/OM drama, a down-on-her-luck curvaceous, plucky heroine, and an over-the-top possessive alpha hero head over heels in love with her at first sight!
You don't want to miss this hot little ride through the desert…
It's gonna be wild, fast, and full of steamy hot insta-love goodness ;)
So giddy-up, we're going to Contrary!
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- Feel-Good Steamy-Sweet Small-Town Romance
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Product details
- ASIN : B0B4493P8G
- Publication date : June 13, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 1.4 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 194 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,088,700 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #5,179 in Contemporary Short Stories
- #16,845 in Single Authors Short Stories
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USA Today Bestselling Author Ember Flint is a hopeless romantic who loves tea, steamy unrealistic reads, and anything colored or scented lavender. She believes in love-at-first-sight and has been your HEA-Defender since 2017.
She writes sinfully-sweet feel-good stories with a happily-ever-after-guaranteed and NO-cheating-allowed where the romance is over-the-top, the sizzle-factor is always high, and the men are rough, dirty-talking, protective Alphas who are possessively-in-love with the sassy AF, heart-stealing women that they cherish.
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2022It’s been a while since the last Ember Flint that wasn’t part of an anthology. Boy did she come back with a BANG. Take one over the top alpha billionaire , one stubborn, no punches pulled curvy girl add a dash of impending deadline , crazy family, great secondary characters (can’t wait for their books) and passion hotter than Texas in August and you’ve got Lincoln and Audrey’s story. BRAVA!!!
- Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2022It is good to see Ember getting back to her old writing style. In this insta-love romance we have a billionaire New York CEO, Lincoln McManus who is 34 and under pressure by his family to get married and have kids. Along with 3 of his equally wealthy friends he sets off to a most unlikely place under protest when his father changes his right to own the company dependent upon such marriage within the next 18 months. He and his friends are all in the same boat as their dads are likewise friends thinking alike. They decide to jet off to the unlikely and remote desert town of Contrary, Texas. Pop: 1000. Buying a building in town they intend to masquerade as a security company but totally luck out when their building is next door to a pastry and flower shop with 4 gorgeous sisters running it. Audrey is a curvy and real sassy babe of 27 who makes pastry but gives the doting awestruck Linc a hard time by resisting him to the nines which he is not at all used to. A cute smexy romance with hot and smoking sex. Fun read. Received this arc and have voluntarily reviewed.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2022The book was a quick read, yet the explicit language used by Lincoln in the first chapter and throughout many of the chapters was quite a distraction from the story line for me. The nicknames used by Lincoln for Audrey a bit annoying too. Audrey was definitely a spitfire while Lincoln was an alpha male to the “nth” degree. If you like lots of passion and heat in your reading then you will most likely enjoy this book.
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2022Loved Loved this book it has it all..
Dree is so funny & sisters too!
Linc is what you wish you can have!!!!
- Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022This was one of the most enjoyable stories, I have ever read, I couldn't stop reading, such unique story, Lincoln McManus, Wow what a family, The collective, Really? I never heard of such a family in real life, it's close to Dynasty the night time soap opera series from the 80's( The Carrington's) his family is nuts, But if Lincoln and his childhood friends didn't force them into the Scheme they cooked up, with the fake Security they wouldn't have met my home girl Audrey and her sisters, who I love by the way, I hope stories are written about the sisters as well, Audrey didn't take any crap, but when she met Linc, they fell so much in love, it was so epic, special, magical and funny. Aubrey met her match in Linc, he pursue Audrey and that was it, he claimed her and made her his Wife, she was kicking and screaming because of what happened in her childhood with her poor Mom and her Sisters, I am so happy that they are all so close and family is the most important thing to them. I love how they worked together and even though they lost a lot, they have their own business in Texas. I loved when Linc told Audrey that she was beautiful and he would fired the wedding planner, I mean who does that? tell the bride that she needs to loose weight to fit into the wedding dress, Linc went off, the support he has for Audrey is so fantastic! the intimate scenes were amazing, it was so much caring and loving between the two. They changed each other lives for the better, His family is atrocious, at least his father is little better, but his father wives, the Collective, I would have put them all in their places, quick and fast. I am so happy that Linc and Audrey are married and have three children and they are happy, because of Linc, who is a fantastic father and husband, once he met Audrey, he became the man he wanted to always be.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2022The author has given us a wonderful story that pulls us into the lives of Linc and Audrey and does not let go. Trying to drive his family crazy, Linc and his friends come up with a plan to find the most outrageous woman they can and introduce her to their families as their future brides. However, plans do not always work out the way you thought they would.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2022Lincoln and his best friends are tired of the families scheming to get them married. Now the families are making a clause that if they don't marry they will lose everything. They decide that the are going to find the most offensive brides out there. Linc goes covert to a small town in Contrary, TX. Audrey doesn't have time for romance and is stubborn to boot. When Linc shows up with his beard, tattoos, and large personality he's there to help her no matter what. What's Audrey keep from falling in love with Linc or will he win her over? This has sweet, instant love and plenty of sizzling steam. Can't wait to read about his friend in this series.
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2022It’s an imaginative stretch. Lincoln goes to nowhere Texas with his billionaire friends to escape, their collective fathers with the mother and steps, from manipulating them into outrageous marriages. Instead, he falls head over heels over a feisty country girl he is sure his family will hate. Entertaining.
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