If the ending changed from a happily-ever-after to Kelly finding herself and taking the restaurant job with hope for a future with Lief, it would have been nearly as satisfying and been classified as Chick Lit rather than Romance. Quote: I might never eat out again… We have paramedics in the kitchen and people are yelling about spinach sides and they’re stepping over us! Everything has to be at the right time and in the right place, but this isn’t it as both Kelly and Lief have issues they need to sort out before they can ever have a lasting relationship. Romance: Kelly and Lief love each other, yet Kelly realizes that love isn’t always enough. This helps to not only make Courtney more than just a bratty kid, but a troubled teen and helps give another side to Lief and Kelly’s relationship. Point of View: While most romance novels are told from the perspective of the female character and sometimes the love interest, this book also takes into account the teenage daughter’s perspective. Lief has to come to terms with the death of his wife and figure out how to be a single parent Courtney has to get over the loss of her mother and accept that her dad found love again Kelly has to decide what she wants to do with her life after walking out of her job and if she can handle a ready-made family. Plot: This isn’t just a simple love story, but rather one that is as complicated as real life.

It might lend a bit of a hokey feel to it at first, but after reading the novel the cover kind of grows on you. As can be expected from the book’s title, it has some bales of hay, fall colours, some pumpkins, and a few mountains in the distance. She has published several other books with Mira, an imprint of Harlequin.Ĭover: The picture is from the perspective of someone sitting on a front porch and looking out onto the walkway and to the fields.

So when Kelly is offered her job back, she has to make a decision…Īuthor: Robyn Carr is yet another best-selling, award-wining author.

He’s the perfect man, but his daughter Courtney doesn’t want to share her dad and has no qualms about making that known. On her way to visit her sister Jill for a little R&R, Kelly meets Lief Holbrook at the local pub. Dealing with all of that, it is no surprise that Kelly landed in the hospital after a collapse. She is a sous-chef at a five-star restaurant the manager is a jerk, the head chef is evil, and the owner’s wife is crazy. Synopsis: Kelly Matlock was having the worst day of her life.

Harvest moon by robyn carr