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Head for the Hills

Tricia Stringer

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: April 30, 2025

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Sep 23, 2024 Brenda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-on-kindle, net-galley, aussie-authors, contemporary-fiction, own-read, 2024-release, arc, 3000-2024

The little town of Jesserton in the Adelaide Hills had been the home of sisters Roslyn and Margot, their whole lives. They lived close, and while Roslyn's husband Richard had passed away, Margot and Dennis lived contentedly, with Dennis' car yard - and golf - his passion. But when good friend and neighbour Gunter died, he left a legacy which would divide the sisters as well as many in Jesserton. When a developer bought Gunter's land, with plans to erect a boutique hotel on it, right next door to ...more

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Oct 13, 2024 Helen rated it it was amazing

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I am a big fan of MS Stinger’s stories and this one was another fabulous one, book number seventeen and I do hope there are many more to come, this one is set in the Adelaide Hills a beautiful area of South Australia and we get to know Margot and her sister Roslyn and their families and their lives in the small town of Jesserton, a close knit community but when their neighbor and close friend Gunter dies the town is turned upside down.

Roslyn is stunned when Gunter names her in his will to help w I am a big fan of MS Stinger’s stories and this one was another fabulous one, book number seventeen and I do hope there are many more to come, this one is set in the Adelaide Hills a beautiful area of South Australia and we get to know Margot and her sister Roslyn and their families and their lives in the small town of Jesserton, a close knit community but when their neighbor and close friend Gunter dies the town is turned upside down.

Roslyn is stunned when Gunter names her in his will to help with planning a charity to help when his property is sold but she must keep it to herself to save problems, the big problem is that Margot wants to buy the property, expressions of interest are asked for and Margot’s husband Dennis puts in a bid, the winning bid is from a well know hotel developer and Margot and many of the town are outraged about this, Margot for one does not want a hotel on her fence line, for Roslyn the money that could be used to help with charity could be very important.

When Roslyn meets Amber a young single pregnant woman at the doctors Roslyn steps in to help and offers her a place to stay in her cottage on her property this is not looked favourably on by her sister Margot who has had a run in with Amber already in town a couple of days before but soon Roslyn has decided what charity she wants to spend the donated money from Gunter on but getting it all worked out while keeping it to herself just before Christmas is causing many upsets with the family.

The hotel causes a divide in the community and Margot decides to run for Mayor and do her best to stop the construction, but her relationship with the Roslyn is falling apart and also with her business partner in the small café they run in town, will the town ever get back to the closeness they had before all of this happened?

I very much enjoyed this story, fabulous characters and setting, I was not a fan of Margot’s although a loving mother and wife she was very outspoken but I did very much like Roslyn and Amber and I do highly recommend this one to any reader who wants a story that will keep you turning the pages, a fabulous read that I loved, thank you for another wonderful story.

My thanks to Harlequin HQ and Netgalley for my copy to read and review. ...more

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