Christmas Nights at the Star and Lantern by Helen Rolfe EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Helen Rolfe
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- Genre: Women’s Friendship Fiction
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Celeste drove back to Heritage Cove after making her delivery to the local
school, and as she approached the bend in the road, she glanced over at the
Copper Plough on the corner. Her heart sank. The pub was as much a part
of the Cove as every business on the high street – but it was heading for a
change and not one the locals were confident in. Any day now, its name
would change and the people of Heritage Cove could only keep their
fingers crossed that a new name wouldn’t be the start of alterations that left
their local pub unrecognisable.
She was about to continue around the bend, windscreen wipers swiping
back and forth to disperse the November drizzle, when a man outside the
pub caught her eye. It was only for a split second – any more than that and
she would’ve careered into a car coming the other way – but it was enough
to make her heart skip a beat.
She laughed at herself. Don’t be ridiculous. She shook her head as she
drove along The Street and pulled up behind the Twist and Turn Bakery, the
business she owned and ran with her sister Jade. Whoever that man was, it
couldn’t possibly be Quinn McLeod, the guy who’d visited here once upon
a time a few summers ago and who she hadn’t heard from since. But the
man’s build and the way he held himself were a sure reminder of Quinn and
stirred something deep within her.
She grabbed the empty plastic containers from the boot of the car and
made a run for it to the back of the bakery before she got soaked now the
cold rain had started to come down even harder. And as she went into the
warmth of the bakery’s kitchen and put everything away, she allowed
herself to reflect on a man who’d very much stolen her heart. Something
that was never meant to happen.
The day they’d met, it was slow in the bakery. But slow days gave
Celeste the chance to do what she usually did so well, creating different
recipes to add new products to the shelves so their customers had even more
choice. That day, she’d wanted to perfect a salted-caramel turnover and get
it onto their menu. But one taste of her latest effort and she’d deemed the
pastry too dry, the apple filling not cooked enough and the caramel sauce
she’d tried to drizzle across it was too thick. It was her third failed attempt.
In the kitchen out the back of the bakery, she picked up one of the three
turnovers she’d made and took another bite to try to really get a handle on
what she needed to adjust for next time. But the pastry in her hand angered
her, she hated to get it wrong, she hated wasted time and she didn’t even
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