Mandy Martinez

Mandy, a character in the Untameable and Unbridled: An Untameable Story books, is your best friend from college. In Unbridled: An Untameable Story, she becomes one of Your Character's love interests. She is first seen in Untameable, Chapter 2.

Appearance
Mandy has medium-length wavy brown hair, brown eyes and tanned skin. She wears a golden necklace, a white blouse underneath a long pink jacket, a golden belt, black pants, and a golden watch and bracelet on her left and right hand respectively.

In Unbridled, Mandy's hair has grown a little longer, reaching her shoulders and wears a green top with a brown jacket. She wears ripped jeans and a green bandana around her neck.

Personality
Mandy is imaginative, ambitious, and always willing to try new things, but reacts badly to being told "no."

Untameable

 * Chapter 2: From the Horse's Mouth
 * Chapter 7: Ain't My First Rodeo
 * Chapter 8: After Hours
 * Chapter 11: Touch and Go
 * Chapter 12: On the Mend
 * Chapter 13: Hometown Hoedown
 * Chapter 14: Undeniable
 * Chapter 15: Now or Never
 * Chapter 16: Aftermath
 * Chapter 17: The Long Way Back
 * Chapter 18: Tamed

Unbridled: An Untameable Story

 * Chapter 1: The Great Escape
 * Chapter 2: Dirty Work
 * Chapter 3: Learning the Ropes
 * Chapter 4: Crash Course
 * Chapter 5: Live and Let Moo
 * Chapter 6: Party in the Big City
 * Chapter 7: Who's the Boss?
 * Chapter 8: Heavy Petting

Your Character (Untameable)
Mandy is your best friend from college. Even if you try to hide your feelings, she can tell that you are attracted to Kit Jackson and that your feelings have developed past the physical. If asked, she will act as a buffer or distraction between you and your brother, giving you time to sneak away with Kit.

In Unbridled Chapter 3, you tell Unbridled's MC that you have known Mandy forever.

Kit Jackson
In Untameable Chapter 7, Mandy meets Kit for the first time. If Kit is female, Mandy is flattered that Kit questions your relationship with her. Mandy tells Kit that you're not the former's type, reinforcing what you said earlier about being just best friends.

Austin
If Untameable's MC teases or asks Austin about Mandy, he appears interested in her but states that she is too "citified" for a guy like him.

Your Character (Unbridled)
Mandy is one of your love interests. You first meet her in Chapter 1 when Ryder brings you to the ranch to apply for the job, and she hires you in Chapter 2. You're in awe of her confidence and quickly bond with her, but you're too afraid of losing her respect or the job to admit you've never worked on a ranch before.

Ryder Wilson
Mandy is Ryder's boss. She appreciates his work ethic but is frustrated by his resistance to change and aggravated by his habit of automatically dismissing her ideas for ranch improvement. Although she's much less serious than he is and generally prefers to keep the tone light, she's angered enough by his apparent lack of respect for her that many of their interactions quickly escalate into arguments.

Patrick & Julio Martinez
Mandy seems to have a good personal relationship with both fathers. However, their working relationship is more complicated, due in part to Mandy's habit of not sharing her plans before putting them into motion, as well as Patrick and Julio's difficulty in thinking of her as a capable adult instead of their child. During the Martinez charity fundraiser in Unbridled Chapter 6, Mandy's fathers confront her over the unauthorized purchase of goat-milking equipment, bought to facilitate her plan of diversifying the ranch and selling handmade goat cheese on the side, and they refuse to let her use the event to promote her new venture. At the end of the night, both fathers announce their retirement from ranching so they can focus on their charity work, and they name Mandy as the new owner of the ranch. This announcement only frustrates her, as she believes her fathers expect her to fail.

Other Looks

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Miscellaneous

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Trivia

 * Her character model resembles a female version of the MC from America's Most Eligible.
 * She shares the same name as the default name of MC from Bachelorette Party.
 * The surname Martinez is of Spanish origin and means "child of Martin". The name Martin is of Latin origin and means: Warrior, of Mars, warlike.
 * She and her fathers share the same surname as Teresa Martinez from Open Heart, Book 1.
 * She is the second character who becomes a love interest in the second book of an anthology series, in this case having appeared in Untameable and becoming a love interest in Unbridled: An Untameable Story. The first is Tom Sato from It Lives Beneath.
 * Her car appears to resemble a Porsche 918 Spyder.
 * She lives in or around Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 * At her fathers' insistence, Mandy maintains an annual CPR certification.
 * In Chapter 15 of Untameable, Mandy was shown to be afraid of horses since she had never been close to one that wasn't behind a fence and found their size intimidating. This is retconned in Chapter 7 of Unbridled, when Mandy opts to use borrowed horses to move the cattle herd even though modern ranchers commonly use ATVs instead. Furthermore, Ryder says that although she's highly knowledgeable about horses, she thinks of them like her babies instead of recognizing them as the potentially-dangerous animals they truly are.