Bet the Farm is LIVE and available from your favorite online book retailer! This heartfelt, flirty story of opposites attract from Staci Hart is just what you need. Happy reading! 💕
Olivia Brent has one summer to save the dairy farm she just inherited.
But there’s one problem, and it’s not her lactose intolerance.
Jake Milovic.
The brooding farmhand has inherited exactly fifty percent of Brent Farm, and he’s so convinced the city girl can’t work the land, he bets she can’t save it in a summer.
Determined to prove him wrong, Olivia accepts what might be the dumbest wager of her life.
His strategy to win seems simple: follow her around, shirtlessly distracting her between bouts of relentless taunting. And it’s effective—if his dark eyes and rare smiles aren’t enough to sidetrack her, the sweaty, rolling topography of the manbeast’s body would do the trick.
What they don’t know: they’ll have to weather more than each other.
Mysterious circumstances throw the farm into disarray, and with the dairy farm in danger, Olivia and Jake have to work together. But when they do, there’s more to fear than either of them imagined.
Because now their hearts are on the line, and the farm won’t be the only casualty if they fail.
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Favorite Quotes:
“Tell me I can’t milk a cow,” I muttered as I pulled on jeans and buttoned up a blue plaid shirt. “Oh, I’ll milk a cow,” I said to my boots, shoving in one foot, then the other. “I’m gonna milk her so good, she’s gonna need a smoke when it’s over.”
She smelled like flowers— not the old lady kind. The kind that made you sigh in the summertime and wish you lived in a meadow.
Priscilla pointed at her mother. “Bad word, Mama.” “Mama can say bad words because Mama knows how to use them.” She opened her fat little hand, palm up. “Monies.”… “My mother started a swear jar,” Presley said. “I’ve spent a small fortune on quarter rolls.” “And how’s that going?” I asked, still laughing. “Cilla’s college should be paid for by Christmas.”
“Oh my God— please tell me you’ll feed it in a rocking chair with no shirt on for my calendar.” “What calendar?” “The one I just thought of. Twelve Months of Mantitty, Featuring Jake Milovic,” she said, motioning like she was reading a marquee.
It’s been a long time since I’ve lived alone, since before you came to me. My next phase is cat lady, and I’m not sure if I love that look for me.” “I don’t know. I could see it. Maybe get one of those hairless cats.” She made a disgusted noise. “They look like ballsacks with eyes, Livi. I’d never sleep again with one of those things lurking around my house.”
You couldn’t look terrible if you wore hillbilly teeth, shaved your head, and put all your clothes on backward.
My Review:
This was my first exposure to the delightfully amusing word stylings of Staci Hart and I picked an excellent start point, as it was divine! The storylines were robust and industriously busy with a bit of everything working at the same time with clever wit and irreverent levity, family drama, a long-standing small-town family feud, baby animals, tiny goats in pajamas, money woes, new business ventures, sabotage, a new romance, sizzling sensual scenes, and a lactose intolerant dairy farmer with pink rubber rain boots. Wow, I should feel exhausted but I adored every word of it. Ms. Hart has a new fangirl and I hope she doesn’t frighten easily as I fell for her hard!
That quote about the cat … LOL
New author for me too. Book sounds interesting. Great review.
The cover says it all.
My kinda book!! Thanks for sharing!
Them quotes !! Great review I want this!!
This really looks good.
The cover looks so cute! And the story! I must read it.
this sound so delightful!