A CLEAN, HISTORICAL ROMANCE SET IN THE ROARING 1920s!The year is 1927.Davis Bakery has the best breads in Queens, New York City, and Blue Davis is proud to serve her customers. Helping her grandparents run the shop, Blue crosses paths with an old high school friend George Greyson, a musician, returned from a long absence in the neighborhood.The problem?Blue’s bookish nature and naiveté with the … problem?
Blue’s bookish nature and naiveté with the gentlemen blind her to what’s right in front of her. Gorgeous George invites her to an upscale speakeasy for dancing, sweet jazz, and drinks. Surprising even herself, Blue accepts but insists on bringing her best friend and socialite, Myra Post.
A skiff and lie to Blue’s grandparents, along with local gossip about that night, lands her black and blue, and shipped off to upstate New York to stay with another family member.
Will George seek out the love he most desires after Blue is sent away? Or will he let the music die along with her departure?
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Blue Davis had a rough start from the very beginning. She was born two months premature from a 15 year old mother, who was not responsible enough or ready to have a child. Two days after her birth, her mother took off with her father leaving her to her grandparents to raise.
Her grandparents, especially her grandma, holds strict Roman Catholic beliefs from the old country of Poland, which she strictly enforces on her granddaughter keeping her on a tight leash.
When she isn’t working hard baking breads or cleaning up in her grandparents bakery, she spends most of her free time at the library reading everything she can get her hands on about history. Although she is very proud of her best friend and socialite, Myra Post, she wishes she could be going to university with her. Perhaps getting a job at the museum as a historian giving tours but she knows that isn’t in the cards for her.
Unfortunately for Blue, she isn’t well to do like Myra and she has come to terms with her rather mundane, humdrum existence at the bakery.
One Saturday, like every Saturday, Blue loaded up her bakery cart full of fresh goods and made her way to the market to sell her goods. It was getting late in the day and Blue had already sold most of her goods. Other vendors began to pack up when a tall, handsome, familiar man approached Blue.
“Gorgeous” George Greyson was a childhood friend of Blue, who has now returned to the old neighborhood with his band the “Charming Darlings”. They exchange small talk and George invites Blue to the “Fat Flamingo”, an upscale speakeasy to hear his band play.
Surprising even to Blue, she accepts and asks Myra to come along for moral support and perhaps to calm her nerves a bit.
The night was going well until a surprised confession from George and an attack by a jealous suitor, changed life as she knew it for Blue in the blink of an eye.
She is sent to live with her Uncle Ray several hours away and Blue only wonders what could have been with George. Will he forget all about her and move on or will the distance only make his heart grow fonder?
Jennie L Morris really paid attention to the details and brought the story to life. She really captured an accurate portrayal of the times and was mindful in the descriptions of the era from the clothes worn to the hairstyles . She even nailed their mannerisms and the lingo used.
I am not normally big on historical reads but Jennie l Morris has a knack for setting the scene, and helping you visualize the world she has invited you to be a part of.
I loved Blue as a character from the very beginning. She is bookish,modest and a bit naive but she also does not back down and can handle herself. She is a little old fashioned for a young person and a bit dated but she has a big heart, is genuine, and a woman of integrity. Although she wasn’t given much in life, she is happy with what she has and makes the best of it.
George Greyson is confident and bold with his “devilish charm” but he is also chivalrous and a proper gentleman that makes your heart pitter patter.
I love how innocent Blue is. She really doesn’t know what a beautiful person she is and George is the perfect person to prove it to her.
They have undeniable chemistry and are the epitome of meant to be. They deserve eachother and their happily ever after .
I really enjoyed this book and recommend it . I couldn’t put it down! I’m definitely looking forward to more work from this Author!