The Bluebird Bakery
A Small Town Romance
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Publisher Description
"Lee Tobin McClain dazzles with unforgettable characters, fabulous small-town settings and a big dose of heart. —Susan Mallery, New York Times bestselling author
New York Times bestselling author Lee Tobin McClain returns to her Hometown Brothers series!
A sweet new beginning on the Chesapeake Bay
Bluebird Bakery owner Taylor Harp loves how small and close-knit Teaberry Island is…except when the only response to her help wanted ad is from someone she hoped to avoid. She and Cody Cunningham shared a long-ago romance until he started dating her prettier younger sister. But though the sting of rejection remains, so do the sparks.
After PTSD ended his military career, Cody Cunningham came back to the one place that felt like home. A difficult childhood left him running from commitment, but when he’s suddenly left in charge of his young half siblings, Cody doesn’t hesitate. He’s ready to build a future, and he hopes Taylor will want to have a place in it. Will she keep him around long enough to see that the boy she knew is now a man who’ll love her forever?
Hometown Brothers
Book 1: The Forever Farmhouse
Book 2: The Bluebird Bakery
Book 3: The Beach Reads Bookshop
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Bestseller McClain returns to Chesapeake Bay's Teaberry Island for her sentimental second Hometown Brothers novel (after The Forever Farmhouse). Taylor Harp has sworn off men to focus on making her Bluebird Bakery a success. She reluctantly hires military veteran Cody Cunningham, who spent his teen years in foster care on the island and now struggles with PTSD, to help out in the bakery, despite her false belief—which Cody is unaware of—that he "took advantage" of her younger sister Savannah in their youth. Taylor and Cody's newfound truce is first complicated when Savannah, now a beauty queen, returns to the island looking for a job after leaving her latest deadbeat boyfriend—and then completely upended when Cody's birth mother abandons his half siblings, seven-year-old Danny and three-year old Ava, at the bakery. As Taylor and Cody work together to care for the children and the store, miscommunications are cleared up and love blossoms. The island provides a picturesque backdrop and a supportive community as the characters grapple with tough issues. Kind, lonely Taylor makes an admirable heroine, and wounded Cody proves easy to root for. Readers looking for wholesome small-town romance should snap this up.
