Reading a Hallmark book can guarantee the following:

1. A happy-ever-after ending sealed with a kiss
2. I will feel so good after reading it
3. I will want to dump my current life, move to a small town and save a failing business thereby making me a hero and I will find my place in this world.

This time around, Rescuing Harmony Ranch had me wanting to move to the mountains of Colorado and get involved with a local festival! My husband declined. At least I had Jocelyn and Mack to show me what I am missing out on.

Summary: After her grandmother calls her asking for help, Jocelyn drops everything and heads back home to Harmony Creek, Colorado. Her grandmother runs a living history museum: a ranch and homestead where volunteers wear clothing from the early 1900s and demonstrate how things were done in the old West, from making soap to shearing sheep. The place is in financial trouble, and it needs the revenue from the annual festival to survive. There’s just one thing that makes this a little awkward: Mack, who’s divorced, and who’s now the caretaker and blacksmith at the homestead. Jocelyn and Mack have their own shared history, which includes both stolen kisses and teenage rivalry. Even as the past and present collide, they have to save Harmony Ranch. Matchmaking grannies, a meddling mutt, and a flood of fun festival activities might just be enough to overcome their differences and forge two broken hearts back together.

PICKING MY HALLMARK MVP’S

As I always do with any of my Hallmark publishing books, I always wonder which Hallmark actor/actress would fit the best for the parts. Even though many would work, my final 2 ended up being:

TREVOR DONOVAN AND JESSY SCHRAM!

I loved her in Birthday Wish, and loved him so much in Snowcoming and USS Christmas, I couldn’t picture a better pair (even though sometimes the description may not 100% match for Mack). Now with their faces firmly in my mind, let’s jump into my review.

What I Loved

What’s not to love about this tale? This is your standard wholesome romance/finding yourself/saving the small town tropes that Hallmark does so well. Do you love Hallmark movies all year long? Then yes, you will love this one as well.

Mack Talbot is the blacksmith you’ll want to fall in love with. Equal parts sensitive with his basset hound I want to snuggle and stubborn, just like my own husband, Mack is a standout Hallmark hero. When he is in the same room as Jocelyn, I could feel their chemistry burning off the pages as I turned them. I could feel the walls up between them from past hurts and the stubbornness to not address them. The emotions were alive and I felt like I was at Harmony Ranch seeing it happen with my own eyes.

In addition, Mack and Jocelyn’s grandmothers, who just happened to be best friends, loved to meddle in their relationship. What was nice to read was when the characters could see through the meddling, but would humor the grandmothers with their silly requests to get Mack and Joss together. I’ve read other books where the main character would fall for it, and it was all too silly. Here? It just works.

What I Did Not Enjoy

Why did the book have to end? Why couldn’t I stay at Harmony Ranch and see how everything continues? When will this become a Hallmark movie, because I would watch this one over and over again!

Do you watch Hallmark movies? What’s your favorite season? I always enjoy the Winter Getaway movies myself! Let me know what movies you love to watch in the comments below!