The Cranberry Inn

With Christmas right around the corner, it was the perfect time to read Barbara Josselsohn's new holiday release, The Cranberry Inn. It's the perfect blend of women's fiction and romance that will delight fans of her Lake Summers series as well as folks just being introduced to this charming small town that always puts me in mind of The Gilmore Girls' Stars Hollow.

This has all the classic ingredients of a feel-good story of a woman starting her life over. Laurel, single mom to Simon, travels home at the frantic request of her father, ostensibly to help him with the country inn he's running. But when she arrives, he's gone missing. Left alone to keep the inn's doors open and its one guest happy, Laurel reconnects with Joel, her high school crush, and together they discover that it's possible to integrate the past with the present and find happiness in unlikely places.