ItaPixie's Book Corner

    Synopsis: He lost her once. He isn’t prepared to lose her again. If you love someone, let them go. Tommy Graham took that too literally when he dumped Angie right before he hit the big time. When he returns to Braebeach it isn’t in the glow of his success with his band, Koolum Law, but as a single dad on the verge of a bitter divorce. Amid the chaos, there’s only one woman he can turn to. After re-connecting with Angie, their friendship has developed into so much more than he thought possible. Angie hasn’t been so lucky in life. Driven by providing a future for her young son, she fights to keep her business afloat. When Tommy steps in and becomes more than a shoulder to cry on, she finds herself falling for him all over again while trying to deal with a past that still haunts her. Will they finally have the life together they dream of or will they surrender to the obstacles driving them apart?   Review:    Love and Fate is a very good read. I easily imagined some twist

      Synopsis:   Turn a tumbledown Paris hotel into a perfect boutique, bookish retreat, and have it open for Christmas? What could possibly go wrong? When Anais receives a near-derelict Paris hotel in her divorce settlement, her first thought is to tidy it up and sell it immediately. All she wants is to move on and forget her disaster of a marriage ever happened. But selling it proves impossible, so she has only one to make it gorgeous and open by Christmas… when her funds will almost certainly run out. She’s not counting on the grumpy American bar-owner next door, Noah , coming and interfering at every moment though. Nor is she expecting to find a mysterious room – which holds the key to a one-hundred-year-old secret – about a woman who chose love against the odds. One thing’s for sure… as the fairy lights twinkle all over the city of lights and the first snowflakes start to fall… this will be a Christmas in Paris to remember.   Review:    Christmas at the Little Pari

        Synopsis:   Welcome to the town of Starr’s Fall, where Autumn can feel like it goes on forever, and two people have a chance to fall in love… The leaves are falling, with a crispness to the air, along with the scents of coffee and pumpkin spice, past a half-empty street of shuttered storefronts and a bandstand that has seen better days… Just like the whole town of Starr’s Fall, thinks Laurie Ellis – as she and her beloved dog Max head to collect the store keys. Maybe she has seen better days, too, but she’s certainly ready for a new start—and to leave her past behind. Still Laurie wonders whether she made a terrible mistake in coming to lovable but shabby Starr’s Fall. Will she even find customers for her pet store and bakery, never mind a community to welcome and accept her? Not according to Joshua Reilly , the handsome but grumpy manager of the bookstore across the road, who claims he’s never heard of anything so ridiculous as a bakery for dogs. But Laurie rema

    Synopsis:   After bonding with the lovely Jensen as they save a dog in trouble, Annalise – new to Sunnybrook – is gutted when they part without swapping numbers. She'd had the weirdest feeling he could be The One but now she might never see Jensen again. When she loses her new job in a wedding boutique, her week goes from bad to worse – until Maddy and the café crew come to her rescue with an exciting solution. The Pudding Club. Can Annalise rise to the challenge and – with the help of the Little Duck Pond Café crew – start teaching others how to make her glorious puds? And could The Pudding Club be the key to finding Jensen again?   Review:   The Sticky Toffee Pudding Club was such a good read, it's relatively short but full of feelings and hope. I don't hesitate to choose to read a Rosie Green book because I'm sure I'll find a brilliant well written story among its pages. This novel tells Annalise's story, she is a down because her lovely grandma is a

    Synopsis:   Her friends are bossing life - is she in danger of being left behind? 25-year-old Cleo is happy enough. She likes her job in the fish and chip shop in the small town where she grew up. But her world has become very small - all her friends couldn’t wait to leave their small, seaside town and are off, apparently crushing life. They have shiny careers and creative side-hustles, while she is still living with her mum and dad. But when she learns that her childhood boyfriend is coming back to town for a party in three months, she decides she needs to start adulting. But what does being a grown-up really mean? And can she become one in three months?   Review:    The Grown Up To-Do List was a pleasant, quick read. When Cleo meets an old high school mate, she realizes how all her friends have matured chasing their dreams, while she is stuck in her teen life, still living with her parents in her little coastal town, and working at the fish & chips. So she decide

      Synopsis:   When a hockey princess takes a trip to the south and two pink lines change everything! Zara The day I picked out my wedding dress was the day I found out my fiancé was cheating on me. After that, I needed an escape. A distraction to take my mind off what a mess my life was. It was supposed to be a one-night thing. Then it turned into more. We knew going in that it was for two weeks. Then, two pink lines changed everything. Gabriel I thought I had the perfect life. I had an amazing son, and I was running the family bar. But all that changed the day she walked in. She was gorgeous and funny all wrapped into one. It was temporary, we both knew that. She's a city girl. I'm a cowboy. But I fell in love with her and let her go all at the same time. Now she's back and pregnant with my baby. It's time to show her she was meant for me.   Review:    Meant For Gabriel was a delightful read. When Zara finds her fiancé cheating on her decides to run to the South

        Synopsis:   T his grumpy single dad and upbeat ballerina are both unexpectedly home for the holidays. But is that the only thing they have in common? Aidan Webb only wants one thing in life, and that’s to do right by his energetic four-year old son, Walt. He’s determined to focus on his business by day, spend lots of time with Walt by night, and avoid romantic entanglements, no matter what. His single-minded focus may make him seem like a grump, but Aidan doesn’t care, as long as Walt has everything he needs. Kenzie Forrest has been dancing out the romantic stories of the great ballets ever since she was a little girl. But a terrible injury leaves the professional ballerina uncertain if she will ever dance again. Heading back to her hometown to rest and recover, she almost immediately bumps into a gorgeous single dad and his adorable son. Suddenly, Kenzie is starting to think that all of this could be fate, and her injury happened because it’s time for her to fin

          Synopsis:   MISSION: SAVE THE WORLD DESTINATION: ANCIENT MONGOLIA Seventeen-year-old Dan Renfrew leads a normal high school life full of all the usual challenges: homework, bullies, and the enigmatic world of dating. It would be enough for most teens, but Dan has a secret. He’s a time jumper, a member of a clandestine cadre tasked with journeying to the past to repair glitches in history that imperil subsequent events. This responsibility alone is daunting, but it’s even more crucial now. A band of rogue time jumpers is bent on taking over the world, and Dan can’t find any allies to join him in the fight to stop them. In a last-ditch effort to foil the conspiracy, Dan and his partner Sam plunge into history together. Landing on the steppes of Mongolia in the year 1179, they meet a brave Mongol teen on a courageous quest to rescue his kidnapped wife. But Dan and Sam soon discover that there’s far more at stake than a stolen bride. They’re thrust into a desperate r