Christmas at the Gingerbread Café by Rebecca Raisin is the 1st in her Once in a Lifetime: The Gingerbread Café spin-off series of chick-lit romantic comedies centred around the titular coffeeshop, this installment a festive one setting up the owner with her future love interest, free courtesy of publisher Harlequin UK's Carina UK imprint, which apparently bears no relationship whatsoever to the mothership's Carina Press imprint.
We've previously received #3 in the series,
Christmas Wedding at the Gingerbread Café, as a glitch freebie in a
giant batch of previous Carina UK stuff.
Currently free @
B&N UK,
Amazon UK, and
Kobo (probably only free to the UK, as this was decidedly unfree when I spot-checked a number of regional Amazon/iTunes stores, though YMMV), and likely also Google Play UK. Price-drop-check linkage for
iTunes UK.
Description
The icing on her Christmas cake!
Christmas is the season the Gingerbread Café in Ashford, Connecticut was made for…but owner Lily couldn’t be feeling less merry if she tried. She’s spent another year dreaming of being whisked away on a sleigh-ride for two, but she’s facing festive season alone – again. And, just to give her another reason to feel anything other than candy-cane perky, a new shop across the road has opened… Not only is it selling baked goods, but the owner, with his seriously charming smile, has every girl in town swooning.
But Lily isn’t about to let her business crumble — the Gingerbread Café is the heart of the community, and she’s going to fight for it! This could be the Christmas that maybe, just maybe, all her dreams – even the someone-to-decorate-the-Christmas-tree-with ones – really do come true!