REBECCA'S REVIEW:
"How many times had I stared at that plan, framed and hanging on the wall in my office?"
Kate Landry has a plan . . . boy, does she ever! and . . . (it doesn't involve pooping parrots, awkward voicemails, conniving ex-fiances, "precious" little puppies, or a handsome librarian teen-turned-man with the most (adorable,memorable,fantastic) seventh grade kiss . . . nope, none of those things.) The question is, what does it involve? And at what cost?
Kate Landry is by any and all means a success story. She owns and operates a beautiful cafe, Beignets & Books, in downtown New Orleans, while raising her teen niece Hayley since the age of two. A recent renovation of the cafe's adjoining courtyard has created outdoor venue space and the next item on her "plan" involves opening a second location (sometime in the next few years) . . . but what if some-time has the potential to becomes now-time?
Everything shifts on a seismic scale one ordinary afternoon. Kate heads to the local library to pick up Haley and comes face to face with someone who is definitely not on her plan. Micah Guidry. (pineapple Life Savers!) As you might imagine (knowing Kate), everything begins to turn captivating or complicated . . . depending on your your vantage point.
"Old people flirting is gross." (according to Hayley, the teen-ager! . . . what does she know? . . . what DOES she know!)
As entertaining as any on-screen romantic comedy, these characters also embody tender touch points that influence a variety of actions and reactions . . . laugh-one-minute, cry-the-next, as you turn the pages of this deeply endearing take-a-chance story. A fabulous sophomore novel by a very talented up and coming writer!
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BackCover Blurb:
I
turned to him, and he winked at me. Winked! We needed clear lines in
place between us. We would not be flirty friends. We'd be friends,
period. The sooner I made that distinction, the better.
Forty-year-old
Kate Landry's carefully planned life has become as messy as the
powdered sugar on her famous beignets. Juggling the responsibilities of
running her café, raising her teenage niece, and the emotional baggage
from her breakup, Kate finds her world once again turned upside down
when her first-ever crush, Micah Guidry, returns to town as the hunky
local librarian.
As Kate struggles to implement her plans to
expand her café amid the New Orleans Mardi Gras madness and the meddling
of her conniving ex-fiancé, Micah becomes the unwitting hero of her
misadventures, stirring up feelings she thought she'd long buried. How
can falling in love in the Big Easy be this hard?
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