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A Seaside Bookshop Christmas:
A Single Dad, Friends to Lovers Small Town Romance
(The Turner Family of Bluestar Island)
by Jennifer Faye
A Seaside Bookshop Christmas: A Single Dad, Friends to Lovers Small Town Romance (The Turner Family of Bluestar Island)
Small Town Romance
3rd in Series
Setting – Bluestar Island (a fictional island off the coast of Massachusetts)
Lazy Dazy Press (November 3, 2023)
Number of Pages 260
ASIN : B0CDFC7T15
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Twelve days before Christmas, the forecast calls for snow with a hundred percent chance for love as the owner of the Seaside Bookshop risks everything, including her heart.
Christmas returns to Bluestar Island in this heartwarming page-turner. While the small town’s holiday calendar is filled with festive events, the friendships of Bluestar’s residents are put to the test. Melinda Coleman owner of the Seaside Bookshop finds herself making a deal with the town curmudgeon that could cost her everything. While furniture maker Liam Turner is suddenly a full-time single father. He’s in over his head with an active three-year-old. It will take these two friends helping each other to keep their lives from imploding and in the process, they find the most precious gift of all—love.
Includes a holiday recipe for Santa’s Mitten cookies!
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Enjoy this peek inside:
Next on his agenda was delivering a piece of furniture he’d been working. It would give him some extra money and he had a treat in mind for Tate.
The delivery didn’t take long. And then he was off to his mother’s house to pick up his son. He found them in the living room playing with interlocking blocks. Tate had a very determined look on his face as he pressed a red brick and a yellow one together.
Liam stopped at the doorway and watched for a moment. He couldn’t help but smile with the way his mother was willing to get down on the floor to play with his son. It appeared she was building a house.
His gaze moved back to his son. He wasn’t sure what Tate was making. As though his son sensed his father attention, he turned his head and smiled. He held out the various colored bricks. “Truck.”
Liam didn’t quite see a truck in what his son created but that didn’t stop him from smiling. “Good job. Are you ready to go home?”
“No.” Tate gave his head a quick shake before picking up more bricks.
When his mother went to stand, Liam moved to her side in order to give her a hand up. Not that his mother needed his help. She was still quite spry. He supposed it had to do with living on Bluestar Island. Aside from the sunshine and fresh air, there was the fact that walking was greatly encouraged because cars and trucks were banded from the small island unless you received a special permit from city hall. And generally they were hard to come by.
“I need to talk to you.” The was a note of seriousness in her voice.
He straightened. “What is it?”
“I heard from Uncle Jim this morning. Your aunt Susan fell.”
“How bad is it?”
“Luckily nothing is broken but she’s pretty banged up. They won’t be able to make it for Christmas.” When he nodded in understanding, his mother said, “Your father and I were talking. None of our siblings are getting any younger. And this latest scare with your aunt has us thinking that we need to make more of an effort to spend time together.”
He nodded. “Of course, you should.”
Her gaze moved to Tate. “It will mean you’ll have to find someone to watch Tate.”
His mother had been great about watching him. So great in fact that he’d kept putting off finding other daycare. He certainly couldn’t ask his mother to stay because of his procrastination.
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About Jennifer Faye
Award-winning author, Jennifer Faye pens fun, heartwarming contemporary romances. With more than a million books sold, she is internationally published with books translated into more than a dozen languages and her work has been optioned for film. She is a two-time winner of the RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award, the CataRomance Reviewers’ Choice Award, named a TOP PICK author, and been nominated for numerous other awards. Now living her dream, she resides with her very patient husband and two spoiled cats. When she’s not plotting out her next romance, you can find her curled up with a mug of tea and a book.
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