Home to Chicory Lane

August 25th, 2014. Filed under: Monday's Musings.

Home to Chicory Lane

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By Deboran Raney

Landyn longs for home, but her mother may have other plans.

Audrey Whitman’s dreams are coming true. Now that their five kids are grown, she and her husband, Grant, are turning their beloved family home into a cozy bed and breakfast just a mile outside of Langhorne, Missouri.

Opening weekend makes Audrey anxious, with family and friends coming from all over to help celebrate the occasion. But when Audrey’s daughter, Landyn, arrives, the U-Haul she’s pulling makes it clear she’s not just here for a few days. Audrey immediately has questions. What happened in New York that sent Landyn running home? Where was Landyn’s husband, Chase? And what else was her daughter not telling her? One thing was for sure, the Chicory Inn was off to a rocky start. Can Audrey still realize her dream and at the same time provide the comfort of home her daughter so desperately needs?

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Crossed wires and dashed hopes. Is that all that’s left of Landyn and Chase’s marriage? Landyn packs up and heads home to her parents’ house.

But Grant and Audrey have turned the house into an inn with no room for children to move back in. They extended themselves too much not to need income from every boom booked with guests.

Lots of crossed wires as Chase and Landyn are back and forth between NYC and Langhorne, Missouri. It seems they can’t both end up in the same place at the same time.

It begins to look as if they might begin to work at shared dreams instead of individual goals, but don’t really have any idea where to start.

Then there’s always that struggle of her parents to make a go of the inn, but are they abe to put the time, money and hard work into making it a viable dream?

Thank you, Ms Raney. I’m looking forward to Two Roads Home and many more stories from the Chicory Inn.

***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***

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Deborah Raney’s books have won numerous awards, including the RITA, National Readers Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, and the Carol Award, and have twice been Christy Award finalists. She and her husband, Ken, recently traded small-town life in Kansas—the setting of many of Deborah’s novels—for life in the (relatively) big city of Wichita, where they enjoy gardening, antiquing, movies, and traveling to visit four children and a growing brood of grandchildren who all live much too far away.

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