Christmas at Corgi Cove: A Novel

Annie England Noblin’s Christmas at Corgi Cove is a sweet love story set in the idyllic Turtle Lake, Texas, a small town known for its closeness and its beauty. When fifteen-year-old Rosie Reynolds is sent to live there with her aunt and uncle at their family inn, it’s the last place she wants to be, but times change.

As an adult, Rosie love the inn, known as Corgi Cove. She tends bees on the property, makes organic products to sell at the local market, and helps her aunt and uncle run the inn, though the place has seen better days. When Everett St. Claire arrives as a representative of a larger hotel chain offering to buy Corgi Cove, Rosie is disgusted with the prospect of losing the home she loves and even more disgusted by Everett himself.

In a Hail Mary to save the inn, Rosie enters a long shot contest in Texas Southern Living. The town of Turtle Lake, and some help from surprising sources, may not be enough to keep Corgi Cove going, but she has to try, and the resulting story is as darling as it is predictable. Christmas at Corgi Cove is a great choice for readers of Jenny Colgan, Sarah Addison Allen, Heather Webber, and Karen Hawkins.