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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This is adventure in learning about small Southern towns and relationships and priorities. The story moves through events slowly and surely as the sunlight wandering in and out of trees in a forest.
It was my pleasure to receive this free book from the author and give my honest review.
Love everything Chancey
I enjoyed this book. It was a wonderful account of small town life. The characters were believable and the author does a great job of pulling you in.
I enjoyed the book and the variety of characters. I am looking forward to reading the next one.
Great look at small town life and relationships
I loved this series!
Great characters. Spot on with description and events of living in a small town.
For a good part of the early story, I was exasperated with the lead character, feeling she was depressed or had some reason why she didn’t speak up more. But since this was part of her own transformation later, I felt better. There were some doozies of people in her town, and they were fun to read about.
A lite and enjoyable read
Not my usual read but thoroughly enjoyed the homey ness!
If you’ve ever lived in a small town, you will relate to this book and maybe even guffaw at some incidents and dialogue. When Carolina and her famile (husband, two sons and a daughter) move from Marietta to Chancey, she has no idea what she’s in for. Immediately she is adopted/smothered by sisters Susan Laney and their families. It takes Carolina a while to learn that the town thrives on gossip, and her family is a primary topic. The book follows the ups and downs of adjustment -to trains going past the house, to her husband traveling for his job, to opening a bed and breakfast, and to being totally surrounded by people. This is such a far cry from being a working mom and librarian that Caroline begins to question herself and everything about her life. This book tells of a voyage of self discovery. The book is well written and compelling.
Nice book. It held my interest
Easy cute read.
The story rambles on without really any depth or progress. Does not hold my interest, although i did finish it. I kept thinking it was going to improve and surprise me.
I loved the beautiful story. We all need to slow down and truly get to know people. We need to belong and put down roots. There are small towns everywhere that are being lost in today’s rat race to get ahead. Truly inspiring!
I liked it, it was different and very entertaining. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.
Having read a couple of other books in this series, it was fun the read the first one and learn more about some of the quirky characters and what makes them tick. An enjoyable read on a rainy fall weekend.
A wonderful development of characters!
Boring
Didn’t keep my interest