Summer’s Sweet Spot (Love in Brighton Village Book 3)
About
A food truck. A baking contest. A future on the line…
Single mom and bakery owner Maeve Carpenter wants to create a safe and secure childhood for her nine-year-old daughter. She’s grateful for all her mom’s help, but yearns for a place of her own—and a measure of privacy. What happened to the independent girl who once intended to bake in Paris?
Even though her bakery is profitable, bills are stacking up like puff pastry layers from her daughter’s recent health issues and the fees for the upcoming summer camp that means so much to the little girl.
The situation isn’t helped when a food truck and its handsome owner take up residence outside her shop, captivating her clientele with its novelty. With profits falling like a bad souffle, she’ll have to enter the Strawberry Festival Sweet Spot Baking Contest with its large cash prize that could secure her future.
All she has to do is bake her heart out—without losing her temper at the competition, or her deadbeat ex, or her mother…or falling for the food truck owner’s sweet talk. The last thing she needs is another guy who can’t stick around.
Can she find the sweet spot in all her relationships and create the family life she dreams of?
Extras
Here is a link to fidgets like the one Neve uses in the story. My grandson loves his from Parker Mountain Comfort Wraps because he can keep it in his pocket and it’s quiet.
Dani’s Strawberry Kiss Cookies.
Reader’s guide
Praise for this book
A heartfelt story that dives into family dynamics and how easy it is to misunderstand someone’s intentions. Cozy read that pulls you in and tugs at the heartstrings for what the characters are going through. Full of love (both romantic and familial) and hope that it is never too late to reach for your dreams, Sylvie writes so the feelings leap off the page and keeps you invested in the story to see what happens next. Can’t wait to see what happens in Brighton next!
This story has two plot lines that it follows, one that explores the mother daughter relationship and the other that explores the budding romance. Told from the perspective of Maeve and her mother Grace it delves into the tangled family relationships. It is very poignantly written and beautifully crafted. Readers will enjoy getting to know the wonderful characters and fall in love with them
This was such a cute, kind, sweet, gentle, clean, small town, enemies to lovers(ish) romance.
I loved the characters and the writing style. The small town was vibrant and cute. The plot was great.
Kurtz does a wonderful job narrating the single mom aspect and how disappointing it can be from a child's standpoint. She navigates a strain between mother and daughter with an ultimately happy ending.
There's nothing I didn't like about this book other than it had to end. I will be picking up more Kurtz books in the future.