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Certain Kind of Starlight
by Heather Webber
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Forge, 2024 (2024)
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* *   Reviewed by Hilary Williamson

Heather Webber writes heartwarming stories like Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe, South of the Buttonwood Tree, The Lights of Sugarberry Cove and At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities. A Certain Kind of Starlight offers up the same feel good mix of romance and magic.

The leads this time are Addie Fullbright and her half sister, Tessa Jane Wingrove-Fullbright, who are both called back home to Starlight, Alabama when their aunt Bean is diagnosed with heart dropsy. Bean (Verbena) is an extraordinary baker. Tasting her cakes fills folk with happiness and hope and 'heal the soul'.

Bean knows Addie can manage the bakery but is concerned to prevent Winchester Wingrove from gaining possession of the Fullbright family's starlight field (where a star had fallen in 1833) that has magical properties. The field now belongs to Tessa Jane, who might be influenced by Winchester.

Addie is reluctant to return as she had left for a good reason, but of course readers know that misunderstanding was involved and will get resolved as the story progresses. Similarly, romantic interests will develop and they do, as Addie and Tessa Jane both come together to find happiness and hope once more.

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