![]() ![]() With nothing better going for her, she decides to quit her job and move into the house, planning on turning it into an inn.īut Maybell has no idea that the house has fallen into such disrepair – or that a handsome man who looks shockingly like her long-distance lover is waiting there for her. Her great-aunt Violet has died, and Maybell has inherited Violet’s rambling pink mansion Falling Stars in the Smokey Mountains. Maybell’s life changes unexpectedly just after she comes back from wiping vomit off the front of an ice machine. ![]() She’s quiet and shy and has learned to satisfy herself with fantasy dreams about ‘Jack McBride’, a Costa Rican man she fell in love with via a dating app – only for her best friend Gemma to reveal she had been catfishing her. In reality she works a messy job at the Around the Mountain Resort and Spa in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (the home of Dollywood!) as a housekeeper. Maybell Parish lives with her head in the clouds, envisioning life as her own private “coffee shop AU” – a fantasy world where she is the center of the action and romance. Sarah Hogle’s Twice Shy is one dollop sweet romance about two wallflowers, one dollop ‘what-in-the-world-am-I-reading?’ Its heroine is so deeply entrenched in her own fantasy world at the age of thirty that I occasionally wanted to shake her, but Hogle’s talent kept me reading. ![]()
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