title: A Wedding Worth Waiting For (Proposals in Paradise)
author:  Katie Meyer 
description: Katie Meyer is a Florida native with a firm belief in happy endings. She studied English and Religion before getting a degree in Veterinary Technology. A former Veterinary Technician and dog trainer, she now spends her days homeschooling her children, writing, and snuggling with her many pets. Her guilty pleasures include chocolate, Downton Abbey, and cheap champagne. Credit for her romance writing goes to her parents and her husband, who taught her what true love really is.
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  ## “Gabe! Come over,” the matchmakers yelled. “We’ve figured out the perfect
  man for Katie to marry so you’ll be off the hook.”
  
  
  
  
  
  “There’s a rancher with four children. He needs a mother for them. Katie—”
  
  
  
  
  
  “No! She’s already raised her brothers and sisters.” Gabe remembered Katie’s
  face when he’d asked if she’d gone to college. His heart ached for her lost
  dreams.
  
  
  
  
  
  “There’s the minister. Katie would make an excellent minister’s wife,”
  Florence said.
  
  
  
  
  
  “No, I don’t want—” Gabe stopped, frustrated. “Damn! Isn’t there someone who
  would let Katie be Katie? Who would help her? She deserves the best!”
  
  
  
  
  
  “Well, of course she does,” Edith said. “I told them that, but they argued
  with me.”
  
  
  
  
  
  He nodded eagerly at Edith. “Yeah? Who did you think would do for Katie?” He
  wasn’t going to marry Katie off to just anyone.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Why, Gabe, dear, the perfect man is you.”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The $10,000,000 Texas Wedding
  
  
  ## JUDY CHRISTENBERRY
  
  
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