When you have found your happily ever after, you want everyone to find it too!

Synopsis

Beatrice Halliday has been working hard at the Princess and The Pea Inn, loved up with landlord Atholl and enjoying planning events for the locals. But at Christmas there’s a kick – as she realises she’s expecting.

Despite being fearful of the future, Beatrice is graced with a distraction: the prospects of helping a romance flourish when a married couple spend their first child-free holiday at the Inn – and it becomes clear they need some help rediscovering each other. In true Beatrice fashion, she cant help meddling.

Featuring the story of a first love, a new family, a marriage in crisis, and an octogenarian love affair, you’ll fall head over heels for this heart-warming rom-com.

My review

Six months ago, Beatrice Halliday didn’t expect to fall in love with not only the Scottish Highlands village Port Willow, but also with Atholl Fergusson.
Not only has her broken heart been healed, she is determined to make other people as happy and as in love just as she is.
So her latest victims are Ruth and Mark Firth, the competition winners that can use some reignited spark, and Nina, who flew over from the States, determined to show her worth.
However, next to all her efforts as a matchmaker, Beatrice will quickly realize that there is even a bigger surprise in store for her, which will turn her life upside down.

I loved returning to Port Willow and see how Beatrice and Atholl were doing. And it was just heart –warming to see the love between this couple is palpable and even made me a little bit jealous!
Despite everything that happened in Beatrice’s past, she is living proof that a great loss can be overcome. And the things she does to make sure that people around her have that same happiness, made me like her even more than I already did!

Seeing Beatrice and Atholl was the sweetest thing ever! And when an unexpected surprise turns Beatrice’s whole world upside down, my heart broke…
I understood her actions, but I felt so sad for her, because she isn’t capable to enjoy it. And seeing Atholl trying to cope with an unusual Beatrice…

When Nina enters the story, I was furious with the way she was being treated in the States. The reason she is being sent to Scotland, I cannot understand how a company would work like that.
And even if Nina is wearing fancy clothes and behaves very snobby, it’s obvious that that is not the real Nina.
Slowly, we get to see how Nina herself realizes somehow she has lost herself in the cruel and hard world where she works.
Seeing her clash with Mutt (real name is Murray, no worries!) was really hilarious, because we readers could see more into it!

I found this a wonderful story to read, even if in fact it were three stories, where each couple/individual is in another stage of life, with its own issues.
Beatrice and Atholl are enjoying the passion and love from a rather new love, but facing something unexpected.
Nina is obviously lost, because she thought it was clear what she was capable of and now she has to fight to show her true worth. And in Scotland not only does she find herself again, but also something more.
The Firths are in a much further stage in their marriage, but being together for a long time doesn’t mean it’s all working out perfectly.

And having this combination, turned this beautiful book into a wonderful one. Love don’t come easy, for no one. It’s a journey you make together.

But for having that blissful feeling, you don’t only need to find that other person to love, but you have to learn to find yourself and love yourself.
And even if something opens old wounds again, the past shouldn’t hold that grip on you, and the right person will be able to understand your fears and kiss them all away!
but also, when you think the love is all over, a moment away can open your eyes again and reignite some of that passion again!

The author managed to write an amazing sequel, keeping the wonderful bits of the first parts, having delightful new additions, making my poor heart warm over all over again, and making me wish I could have my own romantic adventure at The princess and the Pea Inn!