Book Review # #Contemporary Fiction# Coming Home to Starr's Fall #Kate Hewitt #Boldwood Books Publishers #Cozy Clean Romance Novel

 MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW 

An unputdownable cozy clean romance novel with a warm ending, It's a new beginning for Laurie Ellis as she is moving with her cute loving dog Max to a promising location in Starr's Fall which is a wonderful something happening to her this fall - As the leaves are falling, with a crispness to the air, along with the scents of coffee and pumpkin spice, past a half-empty street of shuttered storefronts and a bandstand that has seen better days…loved the author description of the place and atmosphere this way. 

Laurie thought moving to Starr's Fall was actually having her own home ultimately that was magical and a miracle, leaving her depressing apartment she had been living with her foster Mom Nadine was something she was looking forward to. She was a foster kid to who had adoptive parents. Her plan to move as to open a pet store and bakery in Starr's Fall which the community friends found a bit strange. Why did she choose Starr's Fall as her home? I don't want to give away much of the story here and spoil the review. On her way to Starr's Fall, Anni Layman becomes her friend who helps her get to this place and welcomes her whole heartedly. 

Laurie Soon becomes attracted to Joshua Reilly and shares her family stories and starts to date each other. Joshua is owner of a book store at Starr's Fall and is taking care of his aunt's cat, Lea. While the romantic tension is building up between them Laurie is looking for her biological mother who gave her up for adoption when she was born and gives Laurie Starr's Fall as the place of her residence which leads her to come home to Starr's Fall looking for her own mother. 

Joshua's book store and Laurie's date days with Joshua brings this novel to a delightful ending that the readers are waiting for.

Thanks to Netgalley and Boldwood books for an advance copy for my honest review.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Boldwood Books Ltd (18 Sept. 2024)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Book Description

A totally gorgeous, brand new romance from million-copy bestselling author, Kate Hewitt! Welcome to the town of Starr’s Fall, where Autumn can feel like it goes on forever, and two people have a chance to fall in love…

The leaves are falling, with a crispness to the air, along with the scents of coffee and pumpkin spice, past a half-empty street of shuttered storefronts and a bandstand that has seen better days…

Just like the whole town of Starr’s Fall, thinks Laurie Ellis – as she and her beloved dog Max head to collect the store keys. Maybe she has seen better days, too, but she’s certainly ready for a new start―and to leave her past behind. Still Laurie wonders whether she made a terrible mistake in coming to lovable but shabby Starr’s Fall. Will she even find customers for her pet store and bakery, never mind a community to welcome and accept her?

Not according to Joshua Reilly, the handsome but grumpy manager of the bookstore across the road, who claims he’s never heard of anything so ridiculous as a bakery for dogs.

But Laurie remains stubbornly undeterred. She’s starting over, right here. Not least because she has another secret reason for being here… one she isn’t telling anybody, at least not yet, as it involves her own tragic past.

What she doesn’t yet know is that a clue to the mystery is hidden deep in Joshua’s bookstore. And he doesn’t yet realize that Laurie herself might be the key to mending his own battered heart… for Laurie and Joshua and the whole town, it’s going to be a fall to remember.