Dawn Dixon can't believe she's on a groomless honeymoon on beautiful Cape Cod . . . with her mother. She was supposed to be here with Kevin, the man she loves. Still, Mom was the right choice. Dawn's heart may have been broken, but Marnie Dixon is in need of mending as well.
But Mom--being Mom--creates a mess when, on a whim, she buys a run-down ice cream shop in the town's tightly regulated historic district with big plans to fix it up. She's never remodeled anything. And she's never even made ice cream!
Dawn knows she has to stay and fix this fiasco. But her mother's money pit ice cream shop may have created a chance for a happy ending . . . one Dawn could never have expected.
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...My Thoughts...
This book made me want to run away from life and open an icrecream shop somewhere!
...Not that I am envying Dawn's reason for her flight... being dumbed by your
best friend/fiancé is enough to make even the most logical person loose it just
a little. In Dawn's scenario, she has everything under control all the time.
Everything is planned. Down to the Last. Small. Detail. It has gotten to the
point where her fiancé, Kevin, can't handle it anymore. There is no room for
anything spontaneous or for things to not go according to the master
plan.
For her part, Dawn doesn't see anything wrong with how she is. Her planning
keeps her life safe and predictable and is allowing her to achieve all her
goals. Her plan is working until Kevin leaps off the "Dawn Express"
after realizing that he can't take a life time of her over controlling
tendencies.
Kevin's leaving rattles Dawn to the core. She's always known that she would
marry Kevin. Now, to not have that in her future? Her life and her plans are in
pieces and she doesn't know how to pick them up again. She ends up going on her
'honeymoon' with her mom, and while they are vacationing in a small tourist
town, her impulsive mother buys a dilapidated ice cream shop. Dawn is
mortified, but knows she can't leave her mom to run anything on her own. She is
far too spontaneous and doesn't plan for anything - it the
perfect recipe for the ultimate disaster!
Before her father died, Dawn had a passion for making homemade ice-cream
with him. Almost despite herself, Dawn begins to experiment with her old hobby.
As her mother's passion and impulsivity threaten to almost drive her mad, Dawn
begins to realize that life needs to be more than perfectly laid plans and
vanilla. Plans are good.... but perhaps Kevin and her mom aren't totally wrong
about there being another way to live life....
I really enjoyed this novel, and especially the huge character
transformation of Dawn. A great summer read!
Thank-you to Baker Publishing House and to Graf Martin Communications for a
copy of this book.
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