About the book:
The life she's designing may not be the life she's meant to live
Bay Area interior designer to the rich and pretentious, Audrey Needham is already on thin ice with her impossible-to-please boss when her great-aunt Daisy asks for support as her husband descends into Alzheimer's. Now Audrey is risking the career she worked hard to build as she returns to Charity Falls, Oregon.
Her feelings toward the idyllic small town are . . . complicated. While she has many good memories of her childhood summers there, Charity Falls is also the place where her father was killed in a tragic fire at the Sugar Pine Inn thirteen years ago.
Despite Audrey's intent to avoid emotional entanglement, something should be done about the deteriorating inn. A local girl with an incarcerated father needs a friend. And handsome local do-gooder Cade Carter is coloring Audrey all shades of uncertain. The pull of home is hard to resist.
Bay Area interior designer to the rich and pretentious, Audrey Needham is already on thin ice with her impossible-to-please boss when her great-aunt Daisy asks for support as her husband descends into Alzheimer's. Now Audrey is risking the career she worked hard to build as she returns to Charity Falls, Oregon.
Her feelings toward the idyllic small town are . . . complicated. While she has many good memories of her childhood summers there, Charity Falls is also the place where her father was killed in a tragic fire at the Sugar Pine Inn thirteen years ago.
Despite Audrey's intent to avoid emotional entanglement, something should be done about the deteriorating inn. A local girl with an incarcerated father needs a friend. And handsome local do-gooder Cade Carter is coloring Audrey all shades of uncertain. The pull of home is hard to resist.
My review:
I thoroughly enjoyed this debut novel about a woman who thinks she knows what she wants out of life until she's thrown a curve ball that makes her question everything. I loved how she went from this high-powered designer who's stressed out all the time to getting a job at the local hardware store and helping her great-aunt fix up her house and take care of her great-uncle. She also befriends a little girl who's going through a hard time and meets an intriguing man, Cade. As much as she loves it in the small town, it's hard because her father died there and her career is in California. She's torn between two very different worlds. I loved the quirky things she would think or say sometimes. The book talk and music mentions were fun. We also got her great-aunt's perspective of dealing with major changes in her life and her wisdom and gratefulness for the life she's had. She also encouraged Audrey to reconnect with her faith as she'd let it drift away to a degree. There was some great writing and life lessons along the way. I highly recommend this book!
I received a free copy of this book from Revell. I was not compensated for this review. All opinions are my own.
The Author
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© Ely Roberts Kit Tosello
Kit Tosello is an award-winning writer of small-town contemporary fiction with a big heart, as well as inspirational essays and devotionals. With her eye trained on the beauty hiding in plain sight all around us, she arranges words with tenderness, humor, and...
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