Contemporary Fiction

Book Review: Recipe for Love by Penny Zeller



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A clumsy baker. A hunky tourist. A recipe for disaster...or love?

Nothing interesting ever happens in Cloverdale Falls, which suits Maisie Carpenter just fine. Small town drama keeps her entertained until that small town drama brings news Maisie never imagined hearing. Main Street has sold, and with it, the building housing her bakery. Ask any resident, and they’ll readily provide a dismal answer...
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Book Review: Joy to Noel by Tracy Baack


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There’s an expiration date to their proximity. Is that enough to extinguish the explosive chemistry between them?

Madison Wheeler is the definition of a responsible adult, living and working in Kansas City—right up until her life implodes. Convinced by her best friend Clara, she retreats to the small town of Noel for a reset. If Clara’s Christmas spirit managed to save the town last year, maybe that same magic could rescue Madison’s unraveling future.
Liam Park is sent to Noel for a short-term work assignment, and he is not happy...
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Book Review: My Merry Mistake by Courtney Walsh


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I don’t like to make mistakes. Ever.

Especially when those mistakes are witnessed by the same person—flirty Finn Holbrook—who can’t seem to leave me alone. Can I really trust him not to tell anyone that the night we met, I tried to kiss him? Or that I fell apart after I got fired from a job I loved? Or that I’m not as strong as I want everyone to think I am?
The simple fact that he’s boomeranged back into my orbit after all these years feels like a great, big cosmic joke...
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Book Review: The Distance Between Us by Kasie West



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Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom's porcelain-doll shop, she has seen nothing to prove otherwise. Enter Xander Spence—he's tall, handsome, and oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and the fact that he seems to be one of the first people who actually gets her, she's smart enough to know his interest won't last. Because if there's one thing she's learned from her mother's warnings, it's that the rich have a short attention span...
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Book Review: Once a Queen by Sarah Arthur



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When fourteen-year-old Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the mysterious manor house of the English grandmother she's never met, troubling questions arise. Why the estrangement? What's with the house's employees and their guarded secrets? Why must Eva never mention trains, her father, or her favorite childhood fairy tales?

After strange things start happening in the gardens at night...
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