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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.
Welcome to a summer of sweet surprises on Cape
Cod--a place where dreams just might come true.
Rebecca's Review 3.5 stars
"Dawn felt queasy, thinking of what a
cliche she'd become. Jilted. Just two months before the wedding. Maybe not left
at the altar, but pretty darn close."
Yet, Kevin wanted her to take their
non-refundable honeymoon trip to Cape Cod and enjoy it with someone else. Dawn
chose . . . her mother? Leaving her fast-track-to-the-top job behind in Boston,
Dawn and her mother Marnie, headed towards the upscale hotel in Chatham that
should have been paradise, but "the loss she felt over losing Kevin hurt
in a way she didn't know if she could ever fully recover from". As if that
wasn't enough to make Dawn want to bury herself in the sand like a crab, her
polar-opposite, pie-in-the-sky mother had managed to fall in love herself, with
an old historic building, formerly known as The Main Street Creamery".
As Dawn is pulled into helping her mother bring
the old establishment back to life, the two of them discover that the building
isn't the only thing that is being given a second chance at life in Chatham.
Marnie's grief over the recent death of her husband, coupled with her recent
health problems are being eclipsed by some brand new dreams of her own, and
Dawn . . . . well, Dawn is rediscovering, or maybe allowing herself to discover
for the first time, her amazing creativity; with of all things . . . . ice
cream flavors.
But all is not going as perfectly as the
mother-daughter team would like to believe. Historic buildings require a certain
measure of authenticity, and Chatham's historic commission is unbending about
its regulations. Dawn and Marnie need help; they need a rescuer, maybe even
two.
What a charming story!
I received a copy of this book from the
publisher. The opinions stated above are entirely my own.
