Series: Cupcake Club (Book 3)
It's Christmas on Georgia's charming Sugarberry Island -
and there's no better time to enjoy delicious confections...and the sweet
thrill of falling in love...
Molten Chocolate...Cinnamon
Spice...Gingerbread...Old-Fashioned Vanilla...You can't stop at just one. And
the women of the Cupcake Club love to indulge...
Kit Bellamy was raised on pie. Mamie Sue's "Peanut
Pies", to be exact, the family company her scheming brother-in-law sold
out from under her. Now Kit needs a new recipe for her life - and sleepy
Sugarberry Island is the first ingredient. Running mail-order cupcake business
Babycakes is a chance to get her baking on again - until she meets tall, dark,
and adorable lawyer Morgan Westlake. New to the island to raise his
goddaughter, he's as mouth-watering as any of Kit's creations. It's just her
luck that he's the spawn of the very law firm that helped crush her dreams...Fortunately,
Kit's new friends can assure her that Morgan is no typical Westlake - and that
even lawyers, not to mention single dads, need romance. If Kit can just be
persuaded to follow her appetite - and set another place at her holiday table -
her sweetest dreams just might come true...
Good book. After her brother-in-law sold Kit's family
company out from under her, with the help of the cut-throat Westlake law
firm, Kit needs a new start in her life.
A friend has offered her a job with her cupcake business on Sugarberry Island,
so off she goes.
Morgan Westlake is raising his niece after the deaths of
his brother and sister-in-law. He is a lawyer from a well known family, but he
has separated himself from them for many reasons. He has come to Sugarberry
Island to raise Lilly close to her other grandmother and away from the
influence of his own family.
There are sparks between Kit and Morgan from the moment
they met, but Kit is especially reluctant to get involved. First, he is a
member of that family and that's hard to get past. Second, she has a hard time
trusting her own judgment. She feels that she let down family tradition as well
as all the people who worked for the company. She worries about getting
involved with him and then letting him and Lilly down as well. Morgan is
determined to give Lilly the childhood she deserves, and worries that he's
going to mess things up.
I loved the development of their romance. Morgan is
hooked from the beginning, but understands Kit's wariness. He is patient and
willing to let them become friends first. They spend a lot of time together
with little Lilly, doing things at the turtle research center. Kit begins to
see that Morgan is nothing like the rest of his family, and lets down her
walls. The feelings and attraction between them really start to heat up. Things
are moving along at a steady pace for them when Morgan's mother shows up. I
loved how Morgan stood up to her, and how his feelings for Kit were a big part
of his motivation to do so. Kit finally realized that what they had was real
and that leaning on Morgan
A big part of the story is Morgan's guardianship of
Lilly. I loved how he was part of her life from the beginning, but becoming her
parent has him all tied up in knots. It was sweet to see how determined he was
to break her out of the cage she was in, thanks to his mother. I really liked
seeing her go from timid and shy to a much more typical five year old. Her
fascination with the sea turtles was sweet. I loved how a big part of Morgan's
decision to come to Sugarberry was so that Lilly could get to know her other
grandmother.
Once again, the members of the Cupcake Club play their
parts in Morgan and Kit's romance. None of them have any trouble
"nudging" them along the path they think should be taken. There are
some really funny scenes, especially involving Alva, as they do their own kind
of matchmaking. I loved how they pulled Kit right into their group and made her
one of their own. The group plan for Thanksgiving was terrific, and even better
was when they jumped in to help when there was a crisis with the turtles.
One of the things I like best about this series is that
the characters aren't perfect. Morgan and Kit obviously have their problems.
Introducing Lilly to her Grandmother Birdie doesn't go as smoothly as they had
all hoped, which is more realistic than them bonding right away. Secondary
couple Olivia and Carlo are having their own problems thanks to cultural
differences. But no matter what is happening, they support each other in times
of trouble.
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