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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It just didn’t grab me. I wanted to read something slightly more peaceful than my usual mysteries. I just couldn’t get into it The writing is nice and the chatracters are recognizable.
I enjoyed the series of these books
Light reading and enjoyable.
Loved this book
I am looking forward to reading Book 2 in the Chancey town!!
Very well written.
liked the town and the characters of the book can’t wait to read the next series
I really enjoyed this book. I pictured myself there. Heard the whistles come and go, and enjoyed the comings and goings of the familyear and towns folks.
I love the Chancey books! It’s like going home again and not having momma ‘getting in my business’.
I read four chapters and then stopped. The story is too jumbled up to continue. I book should be fun to read not painful.
Easy read enjoyed it will read future books by this author. Enjoy reading about the trains and the fascination that people have with them
Small town America at its best.
I enjoyed this book from start to finish! It was heartwarming!
Funny and entertaining. Characters are examples of people one encounters in daily life. Fast read.
Loved this book and the characters. I didn’t want to put it down. Entertaining and educational.
Great book for those of us who grew up in a small Southern town.
I enjoyed the story, but it became annoying with all her introspection. Good story with characters you might expect to find in. A small town.
Very confusing. Hard to keep track of who was who at times, but then, I lost the interest in caring about the characters anyways. Read it to the end, and thought, what a waste. Too much whining for me.
Not great
In all fairness, I got through the first 25% of the book and stopped reading. Too repetitious and much ado about nothing.