The Café between Pumpkin and Pie (Moonbright, Maine) Paperback – August 31, 2021

It's definite, I want to live and love in Moonbright, Maine! I enjoy each story, I love how they're all connected, & the recipes are great!

eview This is three stories in one book.Love Over Easy by Kate AngellLove Rising by Stacy FinzRomance on Tap by Marina Adair.Each story takes place in Moonlight, Maine and revolves around the local café where the best pies are served, is the hot bed of gossip for the town and where the town females believe in the legend of seeing the love of your life in a mirror on Halloween.In Love over Easy Hannah, is substituting in the annual Halloween Parade for her sister and helping by taking her triplet nephews to be in the parade. When who should come back to town sexy and hot, Jake the bad boy, and the pull of the magic that is Halloween and the legend starts the gossips tongues a wagging. Will the legend come true for Hannah and she finds true love or will Jake leave as fast as he rode into town on his motor bike? 3.5 StarsLove Rising has Sydney who took a temporary job baking for the Café and in her spare time is getting the house left to her after her grandmother passes away and get it ready for sales, so she can get back to her business in San Francisco, but she does not count on having sexy Nick working on a project her grandmother had him start before her death. Sydney is not happy, but she hires him to do the renovations for the house... But what she really needs to work on his stopping this attraction to Nick and get back on track with her plans to leave the minute the house is sold. But that Moonlight town legend keeps getting in the way. Can Sydney find the recipe for love and happy ever after with Nick. 4 StarsRomance on Tap has Mila coming back to town to help her parents make the translon to their new retirement home and she wants to go back seven years to a kiss in a closet with the guy she liked in High School.... but was it the man of her dreams Ford or was it his twin sexy and wild brother Hudson? When she gets her chance to relive history, did she get the right twin, or did the man she kisses this time was always the right guy. 3 StarsThese were all good short stories and I enjoyed them, although I will admit that Romance on Tap, had me starting and stopping when reading this book, took me a few days to read this one. I loved the characters of the town and how everyone was in these three couples business of finding their true loves and happy ever after.

Have know read all three of these anthologies and can definitely say, this one was my favorite! Heartwarming, and irresistibly sweet!

Great book . Couldn’t put it down BUT definitely not going to pass it on for my mother in law to read . Was about a lot more than pumpkin pie.. in a good way .

I only read the first story. Why do authors think they always need to have the engaged couple immediately climb in bed together? I didn’t bother reading the other 2.

All three of these stories were charming and engaging, with just the right amount of seasonal cheer and small town aura – including parades and celebrations, nosy townsfolk, and elderly relatives. I loved that the three tales interconnected more than the average anthology stories do, with characters appearing in ‘guest’ spots in the other stories. The overlay of the Halloween chant lends a small but adorable mystical air while, predictably, muddying the waters for our heroines. I was given an advance copy in return for my honest review. On a per-story basis:Love Over Easy – good girl meets bad boy, who happens to be her sister’s ex. This was my least favorite of the three, as I found the sentence structure choppy and distracting, and I really could not comprehend Hannah’s sister’s rivalry with her. Still, the triplets were adorable and I loved Jake’s quiet protectiveness toward Hannah, the boys, and his grandfather.Love Rising – Sydney is “home” to sell her beloved grandmother’s house, settle the estate, and hustle back to her real life in California. Nick, her sometime nemesis, has been there, done that, and happy to be back to make a life for himself in Moonbright. Even if Syd can forgive Nick his past transgressions, there’s no way this could work, right? A few misunderstandings cleared up, a meddling Gram, and two people who need to learn how to bend without breaking, and we might just get a HEA. I loved that Stacy included two of her characters from the Nugget book series, that was a perfect Easter egg as far as I was concerned. Great pacing, character development, and plotting made this a really wonderful entry.Romance on Tap – I’m a big fan of this trope, and the fact that Mila is of Vietnamese heritage added depth to the story. From Mila’s supportive girlfriends to Ford and Hudson’s relationship, the setting and character development were great. I wouldn’t have minded if it were a touch longer, but it worked very nicely as a short story.

These stories were all very charming and filled with likable characters. I enjoyed reading the book.

Loved but each story should be a book of their own.