Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this advanced copy to review. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.

A sweet wintery sequel to Come As You Are, we return to Bluebird Basin for this delightful story about Mira and Cole.

Mira owns the town bakery, stretched thin between looking after her family and taking care of the business she meets Cole under the meet-cutesiest of meet-cutes! And understandably Cole is smitten!

Cole is a drummer from a super successful 90’s band we learned about in book one with Madigan. He is such a golden retriever of a human being and the chemistry that he shares with Mira is electric from the moment they meet. Their relationship grows from fake dating to real romance, and the real life drama that follows when trying to make a new relationship work within well established lives, routines and families.

I laughed out loud so much reading this book, the dual POV was necessary to really draw you into the story and understand what is going on in our characters heads. Sometimes with dual POV’s I like one characters side more than the other but Mira and Cole were a delight to read.

I would recommend reading book one first, even though this could kind of stand alone by itself. But by reading the brilliant first book you’ll get to the heart of this town, and the residents that call it home. I cannot wait to read more Bluebird Basin escapades, Jess K Hardy is an author I will definitely be following.

🎸Tropes🍩

Fake dating
Gen X Romance
Open Door ( aka Spice!)

Small town romance.