The Mandolin Lunch
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Children’s book illustrator Garet Allen has just escaped her most recent ill-fated relationship and accepts a temporary teaching position at a rural public school. After all, how hard can teaching kids about art really be? Apparently, pretty hard because her first day on the job is a complete disaster, and that has nothing at all to do with the fact that Tess Hill, the captivating and overly conscientious music teacher, shares the same classroom.
Tess, a dedicated teacher and single mother focused on creating a stable life for her daughter, is immediately attracted to the handsome, cavalier Garet for all the wrong reasons. Everything about Garet says short-term, and Tess refuses to consider anything less than forever. She’s not about to give her heart away to someone she can’t count on.
Can Garet and Tess survive three months sharing the same classroom without killing each other…or falling in love?
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Two timid school teachers find love in this cozy lesbian contemporary from Vaun (The Sea Within). Garet Allen moves from Atlanta to the small town of Shadetree, Ga., to fill in for the high school art teacher while she's away on maternity leave. The short-term gig offers freewheeling Garet a stable income without forcing her to put down roots and frees her up to work on her picture book project at night. On her first day in town, she meets Tess Hill when Tess tries to sell her a dulcimer at the local guitar shop. Though Garet is too shy to make a move, she's instantly attracted to Tess and hopes they'll meet again only to discover that Tess is the music teacher who shares her classroom. Though Garet's happy-go-lucky lifestyle may prove incompatible with Tess's life as a single mother, their romance is largely conflict-free as they bond while working on the school play. Vaun ramps up the drama for an eventful finale, but the conflict feels contrived after the sweetness of the buildup. The result is a touching, if muddled, romance.
