Scarlett Cooper’s goals in life up to this point have been simple enough: run The Little Latte coffee shop by day and finish a novel-in-the-making by night. When her creative writing juices dry up, she visits the local bookstore for inspiration and leaves with a flier promoting an upcoming writer’s retreat in Cape Cod. When announced as a winner, Scarlett crosses the state line from New Hampshire into Massachusetts. What she doesn’t realize is the retreat is themed The Great Writers of History, and she has been selected to play the part of starving artist Charles Dickens.Hilarity ensues as Scarlett dresses in costume and competes against two fellow writers playing the parts of Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray, spends her nights in a tiny shack on a cliff overlooking the sea, and finds herself developing feelings for a local man hired to tend to the retreat pet: a decrepit donkey named Janet.Although things at the retreat don’t run as smoothly as Scarlett had hoped, and the competitive nature of the other writers tests her in a way reminiscent of Job who lost half his donkeys (one of which was probably named Janet), she learns that no amount of adversity is worth letting go of one’s dreams.
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Summary
Scarlett is a 29 year old barista who has a dream of writing a historical romance about her family background. She’s developed a bad case of writer’s block. By chance, she hears of a writer’s retreat and applies to attend hoping to make some progress on her novel. She gets a whole lot more than what she bargained for in the process.
I enjoyed this book very much. It was written in such a way that I felt I was reading a letter or diary from a dear friend. I loved the twists and turns the plot took. I loved that is was a clean romance and that it was free of foul language.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good clean romance with an interesting plot besides the romance itself.