Chocolate…the most irresistible temptation?
The Gingerbread
Café is all a buzz! This Easter, Lily and the rest of the town of
Ashford, Connecticut are planning a truly decadent Chocolate Festival.
Cooking up a storm, CeeCee and Lily are not just baking a batch of their
sinfully delicious chocolate-dipped gingerbread men, but an excess of
chocolate truffles, squidgy, cinnamony hot cross buns and melt in your
mouth chocolate eggs. The Gingerbread Café staff have definitely
enjoyed the tasting process!
Add in Damon’s cute-as-a-button seven
year old daughter, Charlie, up for a visit and Lily’s perfect Easter
may just be around the corner. Until her ex-husband Joel turns up
demanding twenty thousand dollars… Suddenly the future of the
Gingerbread Café is not so clear…and Lily finds herself eating far more
of The Gingerbread Café’s treats than her skinny jeans allow…
Can
Lily concoct a brilliant plan to save her beloved café, convince Damon
she has no feelings for Joel and still throw a Chocolate Festival the
town will be talking about for years? There’s only one way to find
out...
Welcome back to the warmth, cupcakes and hot chocolate of The Gingerbread Café – your home away from home
I've borrowed the summary from Amazon. The Gingerbread Café is doing great and Lily and Damon are happy with each other. What makes it even better is that Lily and Damon's seven year old daughter, Charlie, are getting along very well. They are all preparing for the Chocolate Festival and everything is going smoothly, until Joel, Lily's ex-husband, suddenly returns. He wants Lily to pay him back a loan he has given her for the café. Lily has to find the money somewhere and soon, because otherwise her wonderful dream will be taken away from her.
In this Gingerbread Café story there's so much chocolate I could almost see it dripping of the pages. I'm a big fan of books about food and baking. I certainly got my share of beautiful descriptions while reading Chocolate Dreams. I love the atmosphere of these novellas and the dialogue is exceptional. I really enjoyed reading CeeCees wonderful southern sentences. This book is a real treat. I advice everyone who wants to start reading it to buy lots of chocolate first, because you will need it while devouring this lovely and warm story!
Rebecca Raisin's new novella, The Bookshop on the Corner, will come out tomorrow!
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