The House with the Blue Front Door
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Welcome to Harbor Hills, Michigan, where four neighbors find they have more in common than a small-town street, and more secrets than they know what to do with...When a new neighbor moves onto the block, Beverly Castle is curious. The woman, Quinn, is a mother like Beverly? but her daughter is nowhere to be seen. Hoping to preserve the peace on Apple Hill Lane, Beverly decides to keep her suspicions to herself. Until a secret from the past comes rearing its head. The thing is, the secret has less to do with the new mom on the block and more to do with the woman who lives in the house with the blue front door, Beverly's other neighbor? and friend. Can Beverly, Quinn, Annette, and Judith coexist on the same cul du sac? Or will the women behind white picket fences keep their welcome baskets to themselves?? ? ?Romance, secrets and mystery, family ties and female friendships abound in this heartwarming saga about four women who find friendship right next door.These stories are best enjoyed in chronological order as follows:The House on Apple Hill LaneThe House with the Blue Front DoorThe House Around the CornerThe House on Crab Tree CourtThe House that Christmas Built
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3 primary booksHarbor Hills is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Elizabeth Bromke.
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Interconnected and Interweaving. Bromke executes on an interconnected and interweaving style here better than many other attempts I've seen at such an approach. Told via half a dozen or so perspectives - mostly the various ladies who live in a particular neighborhood - this book has its own central mystery while also revealing bits and pieces of a larger mythos. A mythos that will leave the reader with bated breath desperate for the next book... where it is possible Bromke will continue to tease out this particular larger, seemingly darker, mystery. If you are a reader that can have no possible spoilers when reading a book, you're going to want to start with Book 1 of this series. I personally started with Book 2 and had no real problems following the story (thanks in part to Bromke putting a summary of each character and where they are at the start of the tale), but I generally have no issues doing this and back reading the original stories. This is one of those women's fiction tales that might come close to the cozy mystery label, perhaps - I've never read a book knowing it was labeled as a “cozy mystery”, but knowing how friends speak of what that genre entails, this book certainly gets close to that feeling. Ultimately a fun, compelling, and short-ish (just over 200 page?) read that truly will have you coming back to this series. Very much recommended.
