A quick glimpse of a small town in Nevada that has an "old coot" local playing matchmaker with two longtime residents. Can they find a connection while trying to keep a big corporation from ruining the small town vibes?
From the A Lovely Plan for the Holidays blurb:
It’s July in Smallwood, Nevada. Time to try, once again, to bring the two halves of the community together to plan the town’s holiday festival.
As usual, the craftsmen and women on bar owner Wild Bill Toohey’s side want the holiday celebration to reflect the rowdy, fun-loving Gold Rush Days of the west. On the other side of town, Smallwood Inn’s Clive Pritchert and members of the Handcrafter’s Co-op see the winter holiday as a more mellow, family affair.
Longtime resident Harold “Gizzard” Ramsey thinks if he can just get Bill and Clive together to plan the yearly event, everything will be all right. Glenglory Ski Resort management thinks their event planner, Sylvia Marsden, will whip the town into shape.
Who will win in this holiday planner’s nightmare? Gizzard’s betting on love.
SNik's review:
Standalone. Novella. Small town. Mature characters. Closed door. Multiple POV’s.
Both Bill and Clive are business owners of the small town of Smallwood Nevada and even though it’s summertime the big local resort has plans to decorate the town for the holidays but only the way they want. Longtime resident Gizzard decides to do some matchmaking by convincing Bill and Clive to work together and come up with their own plans for the town’s holiday season.
This is a cute little story that has two men finally seeing each other outside of vague social interactions and starting up something with possibility. While they both have past baggage they bring to the table they work through it while honestly communicating and trying their hardest to make it work. Really just a snapshot of a small town filled with quirky characters and a slight hint at a new romance.
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