Jingle Bells in June Also in this series: A Summer of Surprises, Snow Falls over Sunnybrook, Chocolate Cake for Breakfast, Sun, Sea & Strawberry Shortcake
by Rosie Green
Series: Little Duck Pond Cafe #21
Genres: Contemporary
Pages: 202
Source: Publisher
Format: ARC, eBook
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Also by this author: A Kiss in the Snow, A Summer of Surprises, Snow Falls over Sunnybrook, Chocolate Cake for Breakfast, Sun, Sea & Strawberry Shortcake
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Mackenzie Morris, newest recruit at the Little Duck Pond Café, is the perfect addition to the team. But beneath her smiles, Kenzie is hiding a dark secret. It’s the reason she fled to Sunnybrook, desperate for a fresh start that would help to lay the ghosts that haunt her.
The challenge of turning her hobby into a business is a welcome distraction, and to her relief, she finds that her range of quirky pottery mugs and vases appear to be in demand. Alone and scared when she arrived, she’s slowly making friends and starting to feel as if she belongs. Meeting a lovely guy called Aidan seems to confirm this and it looks as if love might be on the horizon.
But then Kenzie makes a devastating discovery that threatens to crush her new-found happiness. Aidan is the one person she yearns to confide in. He’s also the one person who can never know the truth . . .
Rosie Green and her amazing Little Duck Pond Cafe series always manages to brighten my day.
They’re always the cutest, quickest, comforting reads… and I can’t get enough.
In this one, Mackenzie is struggling with secrets and a sad past. And when she meets a man that intrigues her–that all kind of gets in the way.
There are some really sad elements to this story dealing with abuse in the familial atmosphere–it’s sobering and adds a layer to this story that really brought it to a more somber place for me.
However, it still had that amazing Rosie Green charm and I, of course, will be picking up the next in this series.
Don’t worry if you haven’t read all of these–they work great as standalones. Although, they are richer as a series.
About Rosie Green
Rosie has been scribbling stories ever since she was little.
Back then, they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by 'the baddies'.
Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all - unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love.
Her series of novellas is centred around life in a village cafe. The latest, ‘Lucy’s Great Escape', is out now.
Rosie will be revisiting the Little Duck Pond Café with a beautiful story of love and friendship at Christmas time, entitled A Kiss in the Snow, out in October 2020.
Follow Rosie on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Rosie_Green1988
The name of this series, Little Duck Pond Cafe, is SO cute. I wanna go to this café!
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I see these all the time, and they do sound like cute little reads. Glad you enjoyed it. Great review!
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