Looking in your teenage daughters’ purse is never a good idea.
After all, it ended up with Carolina Jessup opening a Bed & Breakfast for railroad fanatics in a tiny Georgia Mountain town. Carolina knows all about, and hates, small towns. How did she end up leaving her wonderful Atlanta suburbs behind while making her husband’s dreams come true?
The town bully (who wears a lavender skirt and … lavender skirt and white gloves), an endless parade of teenagers through her house, and everybody’s talk about a ghost have Carolina looking for an escape, or at least a way to move back home. Instead, she’’s front and center for all of Chancey’s small town gossip.
Unlike back home in the suburbs with privacy fences and automatic garage doors, everybody in Chancey thinks your business is their business and they all love the newest Chancey business. The B&B hosts a Senate candidate, a tea for the County Fair Beauty contestants, and railroad nuts who sit out by the tracks and record the sound of a train going by. Yet, nobody believes Carolina prefers the ‘burbs.
Oh, yeah, and if you just ignore a ghost, will it go away?
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I loved this series. Good writing, believable characters. The stories just flow beautifully. I do suggest you start with book one.
Lo bed the series
I enjoyed the heart-warming main character and all the other unique characters. Despite being written in first person present tense (not my favorite), the story was very well told and kept me turning the pages. Nicely crafted and engaging story!
Enjoyable, easy read. Good winter time book
Enjoyed the characters.
The audio of the characters made this book entertaining with their southern accents
A little slow getting started…
Enjoyable read
Southern Charm
This is a great book about that moves to a small southern town, they are from the Atlanta, but you forget how everyone knows you and your business. Then you throw in a ghost sighting and you have it all.
Interesting story about a family that moves to a small town. Their reactions on how different life is there and how they cope and make friends. I’ve read three of the
books in the series so far and am looking forward to the rest of them.
Love Kay’s books. Fun read about a fun town. Love the characters and their life journey.
Made me feel like I was the character and wanted to make some of the decisions she made. Makes you think about how a small town really is and if ghosts are really real.
I love her style of writing. All of the Chancey books are great.
An accurate dipictation of life in a small town; simultaneously great and maddening. Great characters.
I struggled to relate to the main character, as she was so distant from her kids. It was a fun light read, but lots of stereo typing. The “ghost portion” was a bit much but added an interesting twist.
I read all the Chancey books, one after another, and hope there will be another one soon. They are both light and enlightening – and habit-forming. I recommend them in one big gulp. Lots of fun – and lots of likable characters.
I enjoyed this book. The characters were genuine and the family interactions and conflict could be any family. I love trains so the railroad theme appealed to me and I would love to stay at the B&B. Looking forward to reading more from this series.
The story line was good, but the author gets way too descriptive in every thing. You can jump pages and still not miss the plot, only what color someone’s sweater is, how low it hangs, the fabric and how it makes her feel. Less detail and more meat!
This book pegged the small town phenomenon but also showed us characters who learned from their own shortcomings.
This book had a unique perspective and plot to it. I appreciated the writer’s insight into human nature has she explored the thoughts and growth of the characters in the story. I especially appreciated the internal self-analysis of the key character, a mother, and her evaluation of how she needed to grow personally and the way she was challenged to think about how she looked at others in the community.. I can’t say much more than that without giving the story away, but it is well worth the read and I found myself staying up later than I should at night to finish the book!