Category: Book with food in the title
4 out of 5 stars
This was a delightful little read! I thought this was going to be just a chick lit fru fru kind of book but I was definitely surprised when some elements of fantasy and magic started to show up! It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots. But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it. I loved all the characters and being witness to their growth throughout the book was wonderful. I also really enjoyed the way Allen laid out the story I was kept guessing on more than a few things! I gave this book 4 stars because I found some areas a little slow with too much detail on non important things but overall a great read! Would be good for the beach!!
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