Single and in a dead-end job, Kate feels hope spring when an anonymous invitation falls from the pages of a book. Now, she’s standing in a charming Scottish village and trying to ignore the six-four silver fox by her side. He’s got an invitation too, a husky Chicago accent, and dangerously gorgeous sea-blue eyes…
Widowed ex-police officer Brody never expected to be stranded in Scotland with a cute British lady. Her smile might be bewitching… but her attitude? Way too cheerful. And eccentric bookshop owner Moira says they can stay for free, as long as they don’t mind sharing one very cozy little cottage.
That’s the least of their problems. Turns out Moira’s bookshop needs them just as much as Kate and Brody need a fresh start. And with a twinkle in Moira’s mischievous matchmaking eye, things are soon hotting up in surprising ways!
But as they string fairy lights over snug reading nooks and rally the whole community to buy their favourite reads, can Kate and Brody save the bookshop and heal their hearts? Or will their fresh start come crashing down?
Review: What a treat to find a new release from Debbie Johnson. Everything she writes brings a smile to my face and leaves me wanting to read more. This book has the most amazing colourful cover, featuring so many elements from the story; it really draws the eye and invites the reader in. I picked up this book and found it hard to put down, finishing it all too soon.
The story centres on two people, Kate and Brody, who are brought together by chance after discovering cards bearing an invitation inside the books they were reading. These cards were placed randomly in ten books by Moira, owner of the Edge of the World Bookshop in the small seaside village of Bonnie Bay in the far north of Scotland. They invited the receiver to leave their cares behind, come and visit the bookshop and stay for a while. She believed that the cards would reach the right person at the right time. For Kate, living a solitary existence in London and in a dead-end job, it seems like an adventure that would cheer up her world if she could just take a leap of faith.
Although suspicious at first, to widowed gruff ex-cop Brody, visiting the UK from Chicago, it seems like it might be an exciting experience before returning home to his empty house. By sheer coincidence, Kate and Brody find themselves travelling to Bonnie Bay at the same time. What at first appears an unlikely match turns into the complete opposite as the pair find themselves sharing a cottage as they renovate the now neglected bookshop. As the bookshop comes back to life so too does the whole community, but as Kate and Brody become closer, each wonders how they will be able to part company and return to their old lives when the time comes.
What an absolutely lovely romantic, and sometimes steamy, story this was. As well as two likeable but seemingly very different characters, the reader is treated to a whole caring and close community of often comical figures, and an amazing setting with all kinds of wildlife including many of my personal favourites. I couldn’t see Kate and Brody as a couple, coming from disparate worlds and with a bit of an age gap, but the wonderful Bonnie Bay seemed to work some sort of magic on them as they became inseparable. I loved the way in which Kate’s imagination and Brody’s practical skills were put together to revive the book store, with locals providing valuable backup in all sorts of forms including pints of Guinness. I was glad to see on the cover that this is Bonnie Bay Book 1, because I definitely want to learn more about this intriguing village as well as finding out what happened next for Brody and Kate.
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