Wishful is a southern romance series written for anyone looking for love in a small town. If you loved Hart of Dixie and miss the residents of Bluebell, you just might fall in love with Wishful. It’s a town where everybody knows your name and hope springs eternal! This volume contains Books 10-12.You Were Meant For Me (Book 10)It was just supposed to be a fling, so they agreed to no last names—a … agreed to no last names—a decision Mitch regretted the moment he woke up to find Tess gone. When Fate gives them another chance, they dive headlong back into their affair to find out whether there’s more than simply heat. But when Tess ends up pregnant, he’ll have the biggest fight of his life convincing her that their fling should be forever.
A Lot Like Christmas (Book 11)
Hannah’s waiting tables at Wishful’s Dinner Belles diner and dreaming of getting an interior design business off the ground. What better way to practice and show off her skills than with some holiday decorating? Jaded Ryan, an Army medic on leave, and his cantankerous great uncle, Percy, are desperately in need of Christmas cheer—and a referee. Can Hannah’s warmth thaw these frosty hearts?
Dancing Away With My Heart (Book 12)
After a high school trauma hit like a ton of bricks, Lexi has spent years avoiding her best friend, Zach. Now she’s back in town just in time for the high school reunion she never planned to attend. All she wants to do is get through this with her secret—and her heart—intact. But what if 10 years is just the right amount of time for Zach to finally get a clue?
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I love going back to Wishful. As close to perfect as a town can be. I couldn’t put it down. A must have for those that love second chances and Christmas.
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These books continues on with romance stories following characters of Wishful. Again the author did not disappoint.
I always love the Wishful books. This collection includes three really special novels:
You Were Meant for Me is one of my absolute favorites! Tess and Mitch’s story is heartfelt, poignant, comical at times, and so very touching. It is worth reading, and one I would have read in one sitting if I had the time. I didn’t want to put it down! It is a definite MUST READ!
A Lot Like Christmas is a Wishful story about Hannah and Ryan – how they met, fell hard and fast for each other, came apart, and finally got their wish! It’s a wonderful Christmas story that can be read quickly. Makes you want to move to Wishful for the people, the love and the fountain!
I’m never disappointed with a Kait Nolan book, and Dancing Away With My Heart is certainly no exception. I absolutely love the Wishful stories. Lexi and Zach have been best friends forever, but this is not your typical friends to lovers novel. It is so much more. It takes a whole “village” for this connection to occur. Spectacular reunion!
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This is a great box set of Kait Nolan’s romances. She’s an author who never disappoints. This box set includes the following books:
You Were Mean for Me
First thing I want to say is would the Campbell clan please adopt me? They are amazing, supportive, and all around wonderful. Okay, on with the review.
You Were Meant for Me is another delightful entry in a charming series. This volume finds Tess Payton and Mitch Campbell paired up in Wishful. It’s sweet and hot (not too much detail there, but enough), tender and warm, and all around a book that will leave you feeling happy and protected.
Tess and Mitch do their best to keep their romance, which started in Scotland, secret from their family and friends in Wishful, until the secret gets out. Then the clan joins together to help the lovebirds work through their problems and find a way to move on together. The ending will have you laughing and crying at the same time.
My one complaint about this book is that Tess, who grew up in Colorado, sounds, in my reader’s internal ear, just as southern as any Mississippi native. It’s not a big thing, but it would occasionally pull me out of the story.
A Lot Like Christmas
My wish this coming holiday season is that I get to move to Wishful. Yup! Wishful seems like such a welcoming place that I’m ready to pack up and move. May I, please?
No? *sigh*. It’s only for the characters the author chooses? Darn! I guess I’ll need to live through them. It’s no hardship, I assure you.
Ryan Malone is home on leave from the army. His main purpose in returning stateside is to check on his Uncle Percy, an 80 year old living in his own.
Hannah Wheeler was an interior designer living in Atlanta, until she had an accident. She moved to Wishful to live with her sister, the baker, while she recovered. Now, she’s working as a waitress at Dinner Bells. When Ryan shows up outside the restaurant, looking for all the world like a homeless veteran, it touches Hannah’s heart.
That first encounter will prove the start of another Wishful romance. As with all the Wishful pairings, Ryan and Hannah will have you cheering and jeering, pulling for them to get over their insecurities and give love a chance.
As always, you come away from this Kait Nolan Book smiling. And if we readers are lucky, there’s another couple or two presented in this volume upon which she can expand. I’m so happy I came across this series and this author. These books present a town where we’d all like to live and people we’d like to know.
Dancing Away With My Heart
Lexi and Zach had been best friends in high school, at least until a major misunderstanding occurred between them. It’s now ten years later, and life brings them back together, but that misunderstanding remains stubbornly held in place. Can they overcome it? Can they find their way back to each other as friends . . . and more?
This is another lovely Wishful tale by Kait Nolan, part of an ever-growing series. This book, like the others of hers that I’ve read, has such heart. The characters are real and you empathize with them. You want to be there with them, part of their circle of friends, so you can step in and help them realize and overcome their blindness.
Lexi is artistic and stubborn, and she’s worked hard for the last decade trying to build her photography business in Texas. She’s at the point where she’s ready to open her own studio when her mother, in Wishful, has an accident. Lexi comes to her mother’s aid, and in doing so, crosses paths again with Zach. It’s an uncomfortable situation on her part, but he’s thrilled she’s back. To him, they’re still best friends. But he’s an oblivious guy and doesn’t realize that he did something that caused Lexi great pain during their senior year in high school. She’s held that hurt for all these years, and he doesn’t have a clue. He’s still there to offer help where he can, and he invites Lexi to work with him at his very successful Wishful photo studio. They’ll be thrown together more than Lexi would like, but she could use the money. Will they be able to overcome what’s hung between them for all these years? This is a Wishful: Where Hope Springs Eternal book, so I doubt it’s a spoiler to tell you that they most likely will. I mean, what else would you expect?
This book is a sweet, easy read. I could see it happening in real life, and enjoyed the way the characters eventually were able to resolve things, but not without adding more misunderstandings into the mix. Kait Nolan’s books never disappoint, and this one was a delight to read. It took minor characters from another book in the series and turned them into main characters in their own right. The ending made me laugh, in a good way. I give this book an A+. If you enjoy light and humorous romance, this might be the book for you.
This box set is definitely worthy of your time if you enjoy southern romances. I definitely enjoyed all three books and highly recommend them.
I received a free copy of this box set from the author. I appreciate her generosity, but it had no effect on this review. All opinions in this review express my true and honest reactions to reading these books.
Kait Nolan is fabulous!!! See her name – buy her book! The stories in this volume add to the already great stories in the rest of the Wishful romances. The stories are connected as they all take place in the quirky town of Wishful, Mississippi, but each can be read by itself. Nolan does a great job of giving you just enough information about past characters and storylines that you are not lost if you have not read the previous books. (But I would definitely recommend reading all of them – they are that good!) This volume covers three different tropes while entwining all aspects of romance stories: book 10 (You Were Meant For Me) = fate; book 11(A Lot Like Christmas)= love heals all wounds; book 12 (Dancing Away With My Heart) = high school friends finally find each other. Each is well written with great storylines that will capture your heart.
Kait Nolan is one of my favourite authors and when I was asked if I could review this volume about my favourite fictional town I took it as a perfect excuse to re-read the stories even if it was a third time for some of them. Ms Nolan never fails to deliver an entertaining tale with a HEA that continues as a thread through the next books in this series. This volume is a perfect addition to my library.
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Wishful Books 10-12
“You Were Meant For Me’, Tess Peyton & Mitch Campbell, their story begins with a chance meeting in
Scotland where he saw her singing karaoke. They spend a week together touring the country and sharing a bed. One morning he awakens to find her gone, he is heartbroken since he has quickly fallen in love with her.
He returns to Wishful to continue his life, but is no longer the happy flirt everyone knows.
Tess arrives in Wishful to visit her father, who happens to be married to Mitch’s aunt. Neither of them were aware of this before.
She is very reluctant to become involved with him again, skittish due to her parents divorce and she doesn’t believe in true love.
Mitch is determined to show Tess true love can last forever. Karma has a surprise for them, he is overjoyed, her not so much.
Tess is not one of my favorite Kait Nolan characters.
“A Lot Like Christmas” Hannah Wheeler & Ryan Malone’s story. Ryan arrives in Wishful from Afghanistan on a mission to check on this uncle Percy. Ryan encounters Hannah at the local diner as he arrives in town after a long trip. She is an interior designer presently living with her bakery owner sister.
She thinks Ryan is homeless, so she invited him into the diner to warm up and offers him coffee & food.
The Casserole Patrol is a group of three older ladies with their fingers on the pulse of Wishful.
With their involvement in Christmas prep, they manage to get Hannah to volunteer making Percy’s home a Christmas showcase.
Ryan is suffering from PTSD from a mission gone wrong, he has very high walls built around his heart. But his “Elf Girl” as he calls Hannah helps break them down.
Love this story, love the characters. One of my Favorite Kait Nolan stories.
“Dancing Away With My Heart” Lexi Morales & Zach Warren’s story. Lexi returns to Wishful to help her mom after an accidental fall resulting in a broken ankle. Lexi has avoided Wishful since she graduated from high school after her best friend Zach unknowingly broke her heart.
He is clueless as to why she vanished from his life.
Gotta love Zach’s guy friends that finally call him on his cluelessness.
Another happy ending for Wishful.
I received this collection as an ARC for a honest review.
Kait Nolan has a way with words! Just the right amount of humour, steam and a bit of swearing where required, I found myself not being able to stop reading, and at the same time dreading coming to the last page.
These three books aren’t just variations of the same storyline and characters, as is so often the case in a collection of the same author. Each hero / shero has their very own personalities, and while the location remains the same, there is a different background to each story. The only thing distracting from a 5 star rating for me were some flashes of ‘too good to be true’ in the main characters and in ‘You Were Meant For Me’ the quite incredible coincidence of meeting again on the other side of the world. But then, that’s fiction ~ or fate…
These were the first books I read by this author. There are some references to other couples’ previous stories, however rather than leaving a vacuum in the story for the uninitiated, it made me want to catch up on earlier books ~ which I have already downloaded!
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