snowflakes and coffee cakes by joanne demaio

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Because snowflakes can grant very special wishes. Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes is a heartwarming story, one that reminds us to look to winter's stars. It is then up to Vera to not only bring the town together, but to mend one man's heart she fears she may have lost. When the first snowstorm hits during Derek's annual Deck the Boats Festival at the cove, residents become stranded. But mostly for Derek Cooper whose own tragic story has headlined Addison's news.

While restoring her run-down, wood-sided home-its creaking floors, broken banister, and neglected widow's walk-that secret slowly unfolds like a bit of snowflake wonder, crystallizing hopes and dreams for many in this small Connecticut town. In that rough-hewn barn, she discovers a secret treasure left behind by the previous owner, the proprietor of the long-forgotten Christmas Barn gift shop. in one particular drafty colonial home and old timber barn set upon the pretty banks of Addison Cove.

She takes what's left of her severance pay and invests it in real estate. Reluctant to leave her cherished New England hometown after her sister's winter wedding, former journalist Vera Sterling makes a sudden decision. To the backdrop of seaside cottages and a boarded up beach hangout, to the soundtrack of whispering lagoon grasses and a vintage jukebox, Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans asks if we can really design our own lives, or if our fate lies somewhere in the stars.From New York Times bestselling author Joanne DeMaio comes an enchanting novel about love, family, and the delicate power of snowflakes.

But can Maris ever really go back? Can these beach friends ever be who they were to each other all those summers ago? Now, one of her circle is dead another unemployed and struggling in a tenuous marriage another regretting a fateful decision while one is missing a mother, ever seeking a connection she longs for. Until fried clam dinners and carousel rides beckon a lost love. Her design career had become a shell, curving around her like the intricate whorls of a conch, shielding her until now. But a forgotten home movie tucked inside a dusty attic box leads to an unexpected summer.one of uncovering family secrets while settling her father's estate, one of inheriting a forlorn German shepherd, one of reconnecting with old friends on a weathered boardwalk beneath starlit skies, on a beach nestled in a crook of the Connecticut coast. Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes book by Joanne DeMaio ISBN13: 9781492933175 Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes by Joanne DeMaio See Customer Reviews From New York Times bestselling author Joanne DeMaio comes an enchanting novel about love, family, and the delicate power of snowflakes. Escape to Stony Point, cuff your jeans, and walk along the water's edge in this nostalgic story bringing old friends and their lives back to the sea.Īfter years of pursuing a denim design career, Maris Carrington never imagined trading her Chicago studio for a New England shingled cottage.

Snowflakes and coffee cakes by joanne demaio