Snowflake Bay

August 31, 2015
In Kaufmann’s festive but poorly paced second Brides of Blueberry Cove romp (after Sea Glass Sunrise), long-delayed love blooms at last. Ben Campbell always fancied Hannah McCrae, but she’s about to marry someone else. When Hannah’s younger sister, Fiona, returns to Blueberry Cove, Maine, for Hannah’s holiday nuptials, she realizes that her longtime crush on Ben has matured to womanly desire; Ben is astonished that the bratty kid sister is now a gorgeous woman. Trying not to taint their long-standing friendship, and doubting that Fiona’s overprotective brother will accept the romance, Fiona and Ben carefully test the strength of their new relationship. Unfortunately their shift from buddies to lovers is too abrupt and barely explained, and much rumbling about a feud involving Hannah’s groom-to-be never amounts to anything.

October 15, 2015

Done with her highly successful but inwardly unsatisfying interior design career in New York, Fiona McCrae heads home to Blueberry Cove to reconnect with her small-town roots and put her new business plan into action. Landscape architect Ben Campbell, her secret teenage crush and her older brother's best friend, has come back to town to take care of his family's Christmas tree business, and he's even hotter than Fi remembers. Now her life is going to get a lot more complicated--and that doesn't even take into account the Christmas wedding she's been talked into planning for her older sister. VERDICT Sassy, witty, and sexy, this spirited, sibling-centered romance sees one sister wed and the other engaged--and with a moving epilog it sets the stage for the youngest sister's adventure. Kauffman (Sea Glass Sunrise) lives in northern Virginia.

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