Kristy Ragland has narrated 7 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is To Have and to Hold.
To Have and to Hold
Summary
They've helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now 12 new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Love Takes the Cake: A September Wedding Story by Betsy St. Amant Charlotte Cantrell is always the baker, never the bride. When Will, a regular at Charlotte's bakery, catches her attention, she can only hope that he is the reliable man this single mother has always hoped to find. The problem is that he's regularly stopping in to buy cookies for another girl. But when Charlotte is hired to bake a host of wedding goodies for a difficult bride and finds out Will is the best man, she has the perfect opportunity to get to know him better - and find out how serious Will is about this other girl in his life. The Perfect Arrangement: An October Wedding Story by Katie Ganshert Amelia Woods is a small-town wallflower and the proud owner of Forget-Me-Nots, a quaint flower shop. Her love life has always been a bit lackluster - until she ends up in an embarrassing fender bender with handsome Nate Gallagher. Meanwhile, Amelia's younger brother, William, has proposed to his girlfriend. Amelia would be excited except she has evidence that the fiancée is not who she says she is. It seems Nate is the only one available for any advice giving, and he's good at it - and pretty fun to talk to, too. As Amelia works to craft the perfect flower arrangements for other people, she begins to wonder if real love is better than the dream. And if it is, will Nate still be interested when he learns who she is? Love in the Details: A November Wedding Story by Becky Wade When Josh returns to his hometown of Martinsburg, Texas, to help his best friend get married, he doesn't intend to run into church wedding coordinator - and ex-girlfriend - Holly. He can't help but pine after the girl he never got over. Holly broke up with Josh years ago in an attempt to ensure his future success. But she loved him then and still loves him now. As she helps him plan his best friend's wedding, she longs to be with Josh but doesn't feel worthy of his big-time lifestyle when she is more comfortable in her small-town world. Will Josh and Holly be able to keep things as they are when their true feelings threaten to surface at every turn?
©2016 Betsy St. Amant, Katie Ganshert, and Becky Wade (P)2016 Zondervan
An October Bride
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Emma Tate has just moved on from one fiancé, so when she announces a sudden engagement to her lifelong buddy Jake Sawyer, every busybody in Mayfair goes into high alert. Of course, no one but Jake and Emma know the real reason they’re getting married - so Emma’s dying father will have a chance to walk her down the aisle. But while Jake and Emma move forward with their plan - and frantically plan an October wedding - it becomes clear that their agreement has a few complications...the biggest being their true feelings for each other. With dubious friends, deliriously thrilled parents, and a town that won’t keep its nose out of their business, Emma and Jake will have a lot to contend with if they’re going to pull this off. The real question is: Who wants this wedding more, Emma’s dad...or Emma?
©2014 Zondervan (P)2014 Zondervan
A Season to Wed
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They've helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now 12 new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Love at Mistletoe Inn by Cindy Kirk: Sometimes the road to happiness is paved with youthful mistakes. Ten years after what she thought was her almost-wedding, Hope Prentiss discovers that the ceremony counted - and, as fate would have it, the jilted John Burke has just ridden back into town. After spending some time with John and helping plan a Christmas wedding for a mystery couple, Hope begins to wonder if she really wants a divorce...or a real wedding of her own. A Brush with Love by Rachel Hauck: Revealing the beauty in other women might be Ginger Winters' specialty - but it will take an unexpected kind of love to help Ginger see the beauty in herself. Ginger Winters will be the "beauty maker" for the Alabama society wedding of the decade. But when high-school crush Tom Wells shows up looking for a haircut, Ginger's thinly veiled insecurities threaten to keep her from love once again...despite Tom's best efforts. Serving Up a Sweetheart by Cheryl Wyatt: Meadow knows how to serve delicious food to match any wedding theme. But can she accept love when it's served up on a silver platter? Meadow Larson is having the mother of all Mondays when her roof caves in during a blizzard, right before the most important wedding contract of her career. Renovation contractor Colin McGrath offers to fix Meadow's roof even though he knows he is the last person she would accept help from. But the more Meadow gets to know the new Colin, the more she realizes God may have something more permanent in store than a new catering kitchen.
©2015 Cindy Kirk, Rachel Hauck, and Cheryl Wyatt (P)2015 Zondervan
Serving Up a Sweetheart
Summary
They've helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now 12 new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Renovation contractor Colin McGrath can't see someone in need and walk away. Which is precisely why, when a winter storm damages his new neighbor's in-home catering kitchen, he offers his construction skills to fix it, even though he knows he is the last person his former classmate would accept help from. After all, he was part of a series of high school pranks that nearly ruined Meadow Larson's life. Meadow realizes she's having the mother of all Mondays the instant her roof caves in during a once-in-a-century blizzard, right before the most important wedding contract of her career. Her day continues to deteriorate when she realizes the only person available to bail her out in time is the last man on Earth she can bear to be vulnerable to again. But tough times - and God - have a way of changing hearts for the better, and the more she gets to know and trust the new Colin, the more she realizes God may have something more permanent in store than a new catering kitchen.
©2015 Zondervan (P)2015 Zondervan
A July Bride
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A year's worth of novellas from 12 inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed. Can she forgive the man who left her at the altar? Alyssa Pennington dated Brendan Myers for three years before she accepted his proposal. For almost a year, Alyssa's friends and family helped her plan a lovely wedding to take place in the church she'd grown up in. It was the happiest day of her life when she walked down the aisle to be united with the man of her dreams. But when Brendan left her at the altar, Alyssa was consumed by humiliation, embarrassment, and a broken heart that wouldn't allow her to trust anyone. Especially Brendan. Brendan Myers knows he will spend the rest of his life regretting what he did to Alyssa, the only woman he's ever loved. Without her, his life is empty. In one fateful moment, he'd panicked, destroyed their future, and ruined everything. Now he plans to win her back. But winning back his bride might prove much more difficult than he can imagine. And even if he does get her to the altar again, will she think turnabout is fair play?
©2014 Beth Wiseman (P)2014 Zondervan
Autumn Brides
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Happily ever after begins today. The honor of your presence is requested at three autumn weddings.... A September Bride by Kathryn Springer When Annie moves to Red Leaf, she's ready to call the little town home. Deputy Jesse Kent can't believe his mother has handed the keys to her bookshop over to a woman she met on the Internet. Jesse has seen his mother taken advantage of before, and he decides to keep a close eye on this Annie Price. But when a close eye turns into a historical wedding reenactment with Jesse and Annie as the couple, make-believe nuptials quickly give way to real-life emotions. An October Bride by Katie Ganshert No one but Jake and Emma know the true reason they're getting married - so Emma's dying father can walk her down the aisle. While Jake and Emma plan an autumn wedding together, it becomes clear that their agreement has a few complications - the biggest being their true feelings for each other. A November Bride by Beth K. Vogt Having celebrated the big three-zero by ending a relationship, Sadie is tired of romantic relationships by text. The only man she knows who is willing to put down his iPhone and have face-to-face conversations with her is Erik. It's time to put a 21st-century twist on the Sadie Hawkins tradition of a woman going after her man. But when he realizes he's fallen for her, can Erik convince Sadie his just-for-fun dates were the prelude to "'til death do us part"?
©2015 Kathryn Springer, Katie Ganshert, and Beth Vogt (P)2015 Zondervan
Love Takes the Cake
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They've helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now 12 new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. She's known for her delicious cakes, but there's no recipe for dealing with the new man in her life. Charlotte owns the best bakery in Louisiana, and clients come from near and far for her renowned wedding cakes. And while the wedding scene is Charlotte's place to shine, her own love life is duller than ever. After a string of failed relationships - and men who actually were too good to be true - she has decided to throw herself into her craft and leave love and marriage to her clients. Will is a successful entrepreneur but devotes much of his spare time to caring for his ill mother. He knows he doesn't have much time left with her, so he has done everything he can to guard his heart from relationships. And what girl would understand that he needs to spend all his time with his mother? But when his best friend calls in his help for his September wedding, Will can't refuse. He's always been there for those closest to him. And when he finds out they don't have a wedding cake yet, he knows exactly where to go - the bakery owned by the beautiful, mysterious young woman he buys treats from. Charlotte assumes Will is just another party boy who flirts with all the bridesmaids. But is Will hiding something that explains his behavior? And despite their reservations, will they be able to deny the chemistry between them?
©2015 Betsy St. Amant (P)2015 Zondervan