First Frost

Food For Love

A light piece of chick lit from Saran Addison Allen, the second about the Waverly family of the town of Bascom in North Carolina. The Waverly women have special gifts, which do not necessarily make life easier for them. And they have an eccentric, almost human apple tree, that blooms in winter and chucks apples at people it doesn’t like.

Claire Waverley’s gift is her culinary expertise—she has just started manufacturing candy that has special powers, due to increasing dedmand. The business is successful, but it takes her attention away from her family and what she loves doing—cooking.

Her sister Sydney Waverley’s gift is working with hair, but she is desperately trying to have a child with her second husband Henry, who is a loving father to his stepdaughter Bay. Bay is a pariah in her school and mocked for wearing her heart on her sleeve for rich guy Josh, because she believes her gift is knowing who belongs with whom, and impossible as it may seem to other, she knows she belongs with Josh. 

Then, a mysterious, grey-suited stranger shows up and tries to stir up trouble. The Waverly women and their men come together to battle this threat.  The way characters are introduced and blended into the story—like an elderly cousin whose gift is giving the right object to people just when they need it—there is always scope for more books in this series. The first was Garden Spells, and there’s more magic where that came from. First FrostBy Sarah Addison AllenPublisher: St.Martin’s PressPages: 304