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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Great characters. Great location. I could picture how pretty and cozy the area is. Very good story line and follow through. Easy reading. If you like light heated family oriented with quirky and cute characters read this book.
Great small, southern town story about a family that moves into a bed & breakfast home and gets swept up in all the drama where everyone knows everyone’s business.
Great character development where you feel like you know everyone there and can relate to the story line.
Hard to put down.
With the background of a small Southern town, the author introduces a cast of characters, each of whom is sterotypical to some degree, who take a rollicking jaunt through a summer of experiences ranging from supernatural, to competitive, to overly-friendly all fueled by major gossipers. The plot is simple, the suspense is well-sustained, and the characters are realistic. A good read.
Being Southern and having lived in a small town, this book resonated with me. I was a Carolina, just floated along with whatever anyone wanted me to do and then hated every minute of it. I’ve learned to say no with age. Loved it!
Light hearted and easy. I call this a beach book! Very entertaining!
Almost a cozy mystery but a bit deeper than that. I’ve read all 3 books in this series and would read more if more come out. The characters are true-to-life.
A great story with wonderful characters. Very real-to-life, and I became involved as if the characters were my friends. This is the first book I’ve read by this author but I’ll definitely be watching for more of her writing.
I don’t say this very often, but I loved this book. It has a good take on life in a small town, and in the South in particular. The characters were real, and it has a good lesson that all of us need to be reminded of periodically . . . . you need to bloom where you’re planted. I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to reading the sequels.
I know I live down the road a piece in Southern Atlanta, but it’s like the characters are in my little town. Fun characters. Many of them are wandering around our town. Life in the south is never simple. Loved it!!!
This is the first book on a woman’s discovery of who she is and what she wants. I’ve read all currently available and look forward to next one.
You like what they say about small town living…at first I thought no, not this town but then they pull you in and after this first one I kept buying the next books also about Chancey.
THis book is part of a series with a n on-going theme.. Better to read them in order. This is the first.
There were some interesting plot twists in this ‘Next Stop, Chancey.’ I may relate to it more than some because I am from the South. So to me, it was realistic in its characters. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
this was a fun read, main character is a person you would love to kick in the butt to get her moving. It is her life after all and she is sort of letting it happen around her and then disappointed by the turn of events. i read 2 books in this series, and it is a fun family with funny situations and just enough pathos to hook you in. I am hoping for a third book, so i must have enjoyed it. Characters are lively and realistic although not very introspective. They just are heading right into their situations and working them thru.
I read the second book in this story first. It was great being introduced to these quirky characters. Understanding their back stories made them – and all of Chancy – more enjoyable.
Laughed out loud. Wanted to read passages to whomever was near me. Was so very happy to know there were 4 more books in the series. Am now on book 4 of the 5, and sorry there is only one left. Highly recommend.
I really enjoyed this book, I got into the story and characters. It is an easy read. The thing that bothers me the most is that the author kept using train WHISTLE, trains in this now use HORNS unless it is a steam train on an excursion. That is why gave it only 4 stars. My son is a railfan, so I hear this all the time. Would like to read other books if this is a series though.
Totally original story-line: ghost, bed and breakfast inn; small-town gossips, false friends, etc. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Loved this whole series. Once I finished the first, I was compelled to know more about their lives in this small town and how they would adjust. I am hoping there will be another.
Love, love, love