Reviewed by True
TITLE: Marry Me, Maybe?
SERIES: Bristlecone Springs #2
AUTHOR: Sage Abbott aka Gianni Holmes
PUBLISHER: Coco Nutz Publishing
LENGTH: 500 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2025
BLURB:
Hudson Granger was mine for one summer.
And one summer was enough to ruin me for anyone else.
On my father’s ranch, we worked side by side.
Rode hard. Kissed harder.
Between sunburns and sweat, he became my everything.
I told him I loved him before I left for university.
A month later, he married a woman and built a family.
I should’ve let him go.
But the land keeps us tied together.
Now we speak in silences sharp as barbed wire.
Every glance feels like a bullet.
Every day, I hate him a little more.
Every day, I remember how it felt to love him.
Then his world falls apart—wife gone, a three-year-old depending on him, and Hudson barely holding himself together.
And just like that, I’m caught in his gravity again.
Four years ago, we loved each other at the wrong time.
It nearly destroyed me.
Now, with a child between us and old wounds ripped open, do I dare to trust him again?
Marry Me, Maybe is best read after Aisle Be the Groom by Sage Abbott. Other books in this world include Dear Daddy, Please Love Me by Gianni Holmes.
REVIEW:
Oh boy, Matt/Matty hates Hudson! He broke his heart four years ago and what he did is unforgivable!
Hudson is one of the hands at Gray’s farm. You can find Gray and Ozzie’s story in book one.
Matty returned to the farm after university. He’s the heir to the farm; he runs it together with his dad.
Damn, Hudson is still working there and he has to undergo all the venom Matty throws at him.
Hudson knows he hurt him, Matt told him he loved him just before he left for university. Hudson married a woman a month later and started a family. Matt will never forgive him, that’s for sure!
The glue to their quarrels is Hudson’s three-year-old daughter, Ivy, an adorable little girl.
Hudson’s wife left them suddenly, and he and Ivy end up in a crisis. Matty, Ozzie, and Gray are there for them.
After some hurtful interactions between both men, Matty understands he has to listen to what Hudson has to say.
A lot is going on in this story, it’s not only about Matty and Hudson. There are a few other matters passing the stage.
It’s a widely written story, and I loved that the hostility lasted longer than just a few pages. I felt sorry for Hudson, Matty loves hard but also hates hard.
Family matters, old pains, hurtful experiences from the past, small town life, it’s all here, and all entertaining. The story, for me, was a bit dragging after 50%, but that was quickly over.
I loved the down-to-earth attitudes from most characters, and the decent amount of respect.
The writing was wonderfully done, it was clear and entertaining.
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