Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Sweet Tea and Sympathy (Southern Eclectic #1) by Molly Harper



Blurb:
Beloved author Molly Harper launches a brand-new contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, with this story of a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town.

Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. (What, you have a problem with one-stop shopping?) Two McCready brothers started two separate businesses in the same building back in 1928, and now it’s become one big family affair. And true to form in small Southern towns, family business becomes everybody’s business.

Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. As an elite event planner, Margot’s rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society, and made elegance and glamour her business. She’s riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. Now she’s blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start—and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation.

As Margot finds her footing in a town where everybody knows not only your name, but what you had for dinner last Saturday night and what you’ll wear to church on Sunday morning, she grudgingly has to admit that there are some things Lake Sackett does better than Chicago—including the dating prospects. Elementary school principal Kyle Archer is a fellow fish-out-of-water who volunteers to show Margot the picture-postcard side of Southern living. The two of them hit it off, but not everybody is happy to see an outsider snapping up one of the town's most eligible gentleman. Will Margot reel in her handsome fish, or will she have to release her latest catch?

My review:
Sweet Tea and Sympathy is Molly Harper’s new laugh out loud sweet southern romance.
Take a big city girl and place her in her estranged families compound in Lake Sackett Georgia, introduce her to family and the locals including the elementary school principal and it is like watching an alien come to earth. There is culture shock but there is also love and fraternity. Margot is finding out what is important to her and is discovering that small town life has its perks even if they don’t have Starbucks.
As a big city girl who now lives in Georgia I could so relate to this story. I laughed so hard I interrupted the guys watching the game. I look forward to future visits to the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop.

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