Book Description:
Whitney Garrett is preparing to enter culinary school in the spring, but first she has to sell enough homemade pies at the local Christmas markets to pay her tuition. When her oven breaks, Whitney asks Marie Sloan, proprietor of the Red Door Inn, if she can use the inn’s kitchen to keep up with her orders. Marie agrees, with a catch: Whitney has to watch the three Sloan children and cook breakfasts for the Red Door in return.
The inn is busy with holiday guests–including Aretha Franklin Sloan’s perpetually single nephew Daniel and Ruby, a businesswoman in town to purchase Aretha’s antiques store. Intent on making a Christmas match for the two, Aretha enlists Whitney’s help in her schemes. But the deeper Whitney gets, the more she realizes that Ruby is definitely not the right woman for Daniel–and the more she thinks that she just might be his perfect match.
Cuddle up for some warm holiday cheer as New York Times bestselling author Liz Johnson explores the unforeseen consequences of meddling with mistletoe when love is on the line.
Narelle’s Thoughts:
I enjoyed reading Meddling with Mistletoe, a delightful Christmas contemporary romance set on Prince Edward Island. Whitney is determined to prove to her parents that she can commit to culinary school. She’s busy baking pies to sell at the Christmas markets to pay for her expensive tuition. When her oven dies and the island repair man is away on a long vacation, she needs to find another baking option ASAP.
Whitney offers to baby sit for her friends, Marie and Seth, in exchange for using their oven and commercial kitchen facilities at The Red Door Inn. Marie asks Whitney to provide breakfast for a few guests who will be staying at the inn for the Christmas season.
Daniel is a Chief Financial Officer who lives in Toronto. He travels to Prince Edward Island and stays at the inn while assisting his aunt in negotiating the sale of her antiques store. Daniel’s aunt hatches a plan to matchmake him with another guest at the Inn. She’s single and negotiating the deal to buy the antiques store on behalf of her employer.
Daniel’s aunt enlists Whitney’s help in her matchmaking scheme, unaware that Daniel and Whitney are drawn to each other. A heartwarming romance unfolds as Daniel and Whitney navigate obstacles in their path to happily-ever-after. Marie and Seth’s young children are adorable and add many lighthearted moments.
It was fun catching up with Marie and Seth from The Red Door Inn, the first book in Liz Johnson’s Prince Edward Island Dreams series. I recommend Meddling with Mistletoe to contemporary romance readers who like charming small town Christmas romances with matchmaking hijinks, delicious homemade pies, and relevant faith threads in the story.
