Christmas in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

Christmas in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk is designed to be an entertainment for the holidays in the author’s range of contemporary romance. The first in the Good Hope series, and set in the pleasant small town of Good Hope, Wisconsin, it is the story of the four Bloom sisters who are pining for something deeper than their beautiful selves. There, however, is a hitch. Good Hope is a small town, and opportunities for new love seem few and far between.

Amaryllis (Ami), Fin, Prim, and Marigold have lost their mother, Sarah Bloom, three years earlier. And with the passing away of one member, Ami was invited to join the Women’s Events League for a probationary period of 60 days. And for this group of women their biggest problem is Beckett Cross whom one member described as “Mr. Grumpy Pants.” He had refused to allow his home to be part of the annual Victorian Tour of Homes. As Ami’s Bloom Bake Shop is located next to Beck’s café, her first assignment as a Cherrie was to him to open his home to the tour.

Though Ami and Beck have acted neighborly, they are not close as everyone else suspected. She was shocked by the insinuations and the suspicions that something is going on between them. Beck was once a trial attorney and no one in Good Hope knows about his past and why he quit. And as Ami follows on with the assignment, the two find increasingly getting closer to each other. But the story is not without its twists and turns. Author Cindy Kirk scripted a marvelous story that will warm the heart as love blooms again with the Bloom sisters.

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The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska by Eileen Curtright

The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska by Eileen Curtright is a humorous take on life, love, parenting, and domestic life and follows a single mom, microbiologist Rebecca Meer, who is a partner in the local fertility clinic. As someone who has survived life as a single parent, there’s nothing Rebecca can’t handle. Or so she thought. But once things started spiraling out of control, there little she could do.

The floodgate opened with her partner Dr. Thad Sorensons. His destructive behavior is a major cause of concern as it could ruin their business. Her 10-year-old fifth-grade son Mitchell gets a new teacher in the form of her ex-boyfriend Kevin Holts. Rebecca can’t understand why in the world would Kevin return to Ward after starting such a successful tech business in California, and what prompted Mitchell’s principal Calvin Chester to engage him. Mitchell is expelled from the school on flimsy grounds, and Rebecca messed up the annual food drive that her sister entrusted her.

Even worse, she is prone to making poor romantic decisions that will result in embarrassing outcomes. Full of interesting and well-conceived characters, The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska by Eileen Curtright is the story of a woman who wants to live a well-constructed life but makes a mess of everything. It is an engrossing read, and you will find much delight in it from start to finish if what you want is a story that is full of social commentary but sparkling with wit and energy.

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