The Sweet Life

 

Dawn Dixon can hardly believe she's on a groomless honeymoon on beautiful Cape Cod . . . with her mother. Sure, Marnie Dixon is good company, but Dawn was supposed to be here with Kevin, the love of her life (or so she thought).

Marnie Dixon needs some time away from the absolute realness of life as much as her jilted daughter does, and she's not about to let her only child suffer alone--even if Marnie herself had been doing precisely that for the past month.

Given the circumstances, maybe it was inevitable that Marnie would do something as rash as buy a run-down ice-cream shop in the town's tightly regulated historic district. After all, everything's better with ice cream.

Her exasperated daughter knows that she's the one who will have to clean up this mess. Even when her mother's impulsive real estate purchase brings Kevin back into her life, Dawn doesn't get her hopes up. Everyone knows that broken romances stay broken . . . don't they?

Welcome to a summer of sweet surprises on Cape Cod--a place where dreams just might come true.

What I Thought:

This is the first in a new series by Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Cape Cod Creamery Series. This series caught my attention because it was set in Cape Cod. Dawn is about to marry her fiancé Kevin, but a few weeks before the wedding Kevin calls it off. Kevin allows Dawn to go on the honeymoon trip to Cape Cod that he had booked, and Dawn takes her mother Marnie. Marnie is going through some things of her own. While on the trip, Marnie comes upon a run-down ice cream parlor and negotiates with the owner to buy it out right as is. Dawn agrees to stay through the summer to help her mother. This was a charming story of a daughter and a mother who forge a new relationship, and both find themselves while renovating an old ice cream parlor. While this is a Christian fiction book and there is a faith element it is written very well and does not force the authors faith onto the reader. I really enjoyed the setting of this book and enjoyed the dynamics of the relationship between Marnie and Dawn and also the dynamics of new relationship Dawn formed with her ex-fiancé and the relationship Marnie forms with a new friend she made. This was a charming story that kept me entertained throughout. It was a feel-good story that left me with a warm feeling after reading it.