Breakfast at the Honey Creek Café

Breakfast at the Honey Creek Café

Jodi Thomas2020
From Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Mornings on Main and Indigo Lake, comes this heartwarming new novel set in Honey Creek, Texas--a small town where family bonds and legends run deep, and friendship and love are always close at hand . . . Piper Kate McKenzie, mayor of Honey Creek, won't let a major scandal rip her quirky hometown apart, or jeopardize her dream of one day running for higher office. So she's willing to welcome undercover detective Colby McBride, hired to help solve the mystery behind her wannabe fiancé's disappearance. Colby's cover? That he is an old boyfriend now begging Piper for a second chance--always when there are plenty of townsfolk around to witness his shenanigans. Piper hardly knows whether to laugh or cry, especially when she finds herself drawn to the handsome rascal. He's not the only newcomer she has to deal with. There's a new interim preacher in town, Sam Cassidy. Drifting from one assignment to another since his one love died, Sam isn't sure he's the right fit for Honey Creek. But as Piper knows, this is a place chock-full of surprises. And if she can keep her town--and her heart--from going completely off the rails, there may be a sweet, unexpected future in store. . . . "Compelling and beautifully written." --Debbie Macomber on Ransom Canyon
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Kristen Claiborn@kristenc
3 stars
Jan 7, 2023

I did my faithful fans (all 1 of you…which is really just me) a HUGE disservice. I wrote a posted the review for the third book in this series (POST LINK HERE) before I posted reviews for the first two. I’m pretty ashamed of myself, actually, and realize I need to pay more attention…maybe work on my organizational skills. I’ll try harder in the future, and for now, I am genuinely sorry. I have loved being part of the Brenda Novak Book Club on Facebook. For at least four years, I have followed her monthly choices and I almost always enjoy them. The ONLY thing about her choices that irks me is that the monthly selections are frequently pieces of a series. I refuse to read a book from a series out of order, so I have to go back and start from the beginning (in 2021 one of the books was #6…I still haven’t read that one). This book was the first in a series where #3 was a Brenda Novak Book Club Selection…so here we are. This book was cute, and it has everything a romance novel (and the start of a series) needs. The mayor is a trouble-magnet, but she ends up with a Texas Ranger so it works out. The situation with Pecos is a little odd (really it’s more than a little odd, but whatevs), but he seems to love where he’s at so I’m not going to judge more harshly than that. It’s a cute little book.