A Taste of Christmas Magic by Sinclair Jayne
Tule Publishing (February 20, 2025)
Novella/Small Town Romance/Christmas
This Christmas, he just might believe in a little magic…
Rustin Wildish furiously left Belmont North Carolina as a teen to make his reputation in the culinary world. Over twelve years later, he’s back in the town that where the founding family of Mayes once branded him a worthless bad boy. Intent to show them how wrong they were, he buys the local diner—considered an institution—from his former mentor and boss, Miss Millie Maye and transforms. Success will be his revenge as the Maye’s and other ‘upstanding families,’ are forced to eat their words and so much more. But then the youngest Maye daughter asks him for help, and he inexplicably says yes.
This Christmas Chloe Maye has finally bitten off far more than she can chew. She’s agreed to organize The Maye family’s annual fundraiser–a movable feast where historic downtown homes are open to the public and each serve one course of a lavish meal. Chloe can’t cook so armed with a historic handwritten cookbook she mysteriously finds in a mini library outside her Grandma Millie’s home, she approaches Rustin for help. She’s always crushed on him and is thrilled he’s back.
But when Rustin, who ignored her their entire childhood, takes a bite from the meal she cooks under his exacting supervision, the unthinkable happens. He falls head over heels in love…
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REVIEW
Chloe is a very different female main character which was a bit refreshing. She’s bit of an oddball, bit of an outcast, and acts randomly. Rustin had a hard childhood and returned to town as a successful restaurant owner/chef. Rustin gives Chloe some cooking tips which in turns gives her self-confidence. Chloe is full of ideas for Rustin’s new restaurant, and she eventually gets him in the Christmas spirit. Quick, easy to read novella set at Christmas in a small town.
Reviewed by Comfy Chair Books/Lisa Reigel
Originally reviewed as part of the Southern Christmas Anthology (October 29, 2024)
eARC provided by publisher for review
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sinclair Sawhney is a former journalist and middle school teacher who holds a BA in Political Science and K-8 teaching certificate from the University of California, Irvine and a MS in Education with an emphasis in teaching writing from the University of Washington. She has worked as Senior Editor with Tule Publishing for over seven years. Writing as Sinclair Jayne she’s published fifteen short contemporary romances with Tule Publishing with another four books being released in 2021. Married for over twenty-four years, she has two children, and when she isn’t writing or editing, she and her husband, Deepak, are hosting wine tastings of their pinot noir and pinot noir rose at their vineyard Roshni, which is a Hindi word for light-filled, located in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Shaandaar!
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