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Making Sweet Music (The Shops at Sunshine Bay) Kindle Edition
🎼 🎶 Sometimes the best harmonies are the ones you never saw coming. 💕
When Doris’s husband suddenly announces he needs “a break,” she’s left picking up the pieces of a life that feels out of tune. Between caring for her spirited grandson Zack and trying to keep her family steady, she has just two days to find the perfect nanny.
Enter Kiran—a newly divorced music teacher with a gentle soul and a gift for bringing calm wherever she goes. Soon the house is filled with laughter, music, and a warmth Doris thought they’d lost. But Kiran has her own heartache to mend, and as summer unfolds, it’s not just Zack who begins to bloom—Robert, Doris’s widowed son, finds himself drawn to the woman who has brought harmony back into their lives.
Can one unexpected hire bring a fractured family—and two lonely hearts—back into tune?
💖 Making Sweet Music is a heartwarming, clean small-town romance about healing, forgiveness, and finding love in the second half of life.
Perfect for readers who adore:
🥰 feel-good women’s fiction,
❤️second-chance love stories, and,
🏡 uplifting tales of family, community, and hope.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 28, 2024
- File size560 KB
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- ASIN : B0CW1FLJGM
- Publisher : Littleford House Books
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : May 28, 2024
- Language : English
- File size : 560 KB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 362 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1738834358
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Part of series : The Shops at Sunshine Bay
- Best Sellers Rank: #966,450 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,538 in Later in Life Romance (Kindle Store)
- #4,689 in Later in Life Romance (Books)
- #6,926 in Women's Friendship Fiction
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About the author

Jeanine Lauren is a USA Today bestselling author who crafts heartwarming women’s fiction and sweet romances, blending friendship, love, and second chances. Though she spent much of her life writing for work, school, and those never-ending to-do lists (admit it, we all have them), Jeanine found her true passion in creating stories that feel like coming home.
In 2019, she took a leap and published Love’s Fresh Start, the first book in her Sunshine Bay series, and she’s been making up for lost time ever since, bringing readers back to this beloved small town for stories filled with warmth and possibility.
Jeanine lives near the breathtaking coastline of British Columbia, not far from the fictional town of Sunshine Bay, where love and community are always in season. If you’d like to be among the first to know about her next release, join her mailing list—you might just get a sneak peek into her latest project!
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2024Format: KindleThis is my first encounter with this author's writing, and I must say that I enjoyed it, especially given my profession as a piano teacher. Although the idea of a man hiring a nanny and eventually falling in love is familiar, this book's unique twist lies in its parallel storylines. Unfortunately, the multiple narratives sometimes caused confusion, as it was not always clear which storyline was being followed. Despite this, I found the book to be engaging and recommend it. It’s a story of forgiveness.
I was given an advanced copy of this book for free and I’m leaving my review voluntarily.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024Format: KindleWith a husband that travels with work, Doris has been the supporter for family and friends. When her husband leaves saying he needs to find out what he wants to do, she continues with her music store, her widowed son, and grandson handling problems that arise. She is thinking of turning the store over to her son and retiring but currently she has no idea where her husband is. He won’t communicate with her, and she is left with the feeling he doesn’t want in the marriage anymore. Robert, her son, is raising his son as a single dad and needs a nanny to help but a longtime friend of his wife’s seems to always tell him something the nanny is doing wrong causing him to fire them. Kiran, a woman looking for a fresh start in a new town has applied to be Robert’s nanny. She likes this town and this family and is thinking about settling down here if she can get a job as a schoolteacher. As Zach instantly becomes attached to Kiran, will she be able to satisfy the nosy neighbor looking for a fault. Will Robert finally be able to move on as he misses Kiran when she isn’t there. When Doris goes to take care of her brother Jock, she just might find out what she is missing and what makes her happy. Between all their lives and miscommunications, they all seem to be going in the right direction. I guess you can say love conquers all.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2024Format: KindleI’ve just finished ‘Making Sweet Music’ by Jeanine Lauren, the first story in a series set in Sunshine Bay, in Canada.
Do you like tense stories? Sorry, this isn’t it. How about cussing? Nope. Do you want a hero to bring the world back from the brink of destruction? Explosions? Murder & mayhem? Still, nope. Do you demand steam in your romance? You’ll have to keep looking.
I read a lot, & have enjoyed all of those elements. (Except for the cussing; to me, it still seems like limited vocabulary or imagination 😆😉😆)
If you want a story about an everyday family, one where the members love, care, respect each other? Hmmmm.
I got to spend time with 3 generations of the Hudson family of Sunshine Bay. Are they perfect? Another no. Do they have problems? Loss? Miscommunications? Issues as changes come into their lives? Yes.. like most folks do from time to time.
Do they have to learn to embrace some changes? Disregard others? Forgive? Yes. And they learn to do it because at their foundation, they truly love one another.
I enjoyed my time with the Hudson family and their friends. They’ve faced some of the dilemmas that I have faced. We’ve made some of the same mistakes, some of the choices. They are folks I’d like to have as neighbors, friends, part of my family. I’d welcome them. I feel that they’ve already welcomed me.
Will I come back for the next story? Yes, I think I might. Thank you Ms Lauren for inviting me into their world.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024Format: KindleReally enjoyed this book! Got caught up in my mind while this 'where is Neil and is he being faithful to Doris?
Author carried this question throughout the book and her main characters were easy to follow and care for. Doris, Mom, Wife, Sister and over all Manager of Everyone's life, schedule. She likes to manage and help her children, Robert and Nora's lives and families. She is very understand and is always in 'take charge mode' forgetting Robert and Nora are adults and can handle their own lives. She eventually gets that message while trying to figure out what and where Neil is and up to while being non-communicable.
Neil, Doris' husband and missing husband is trying to find himself while deciding what to do as he nears retiring age and Doris starts wondering what she would like to do in the near future. This was a very realistic and drama filled read that kept me page turning to find out what happens til the very end of the story.
I received this free, ARC, copy in advance and am giving my free and voluntary review
- Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2024Format: KindleThis is the second book in the Sunshine Shops series. Doris owns a music shop in Sunshine Bay and her son Robert is working with her. Robert and his son Zack live above the music store and they are both musically talented. Doris’s husband has left to find himself he thinks she is way too involved with everything but him. Doris is such a mother hen making sure Robert and Zach are okay all the time. And, for some reason their child care workers don’t last long. So Doris sets up interviews to find yet another child sitter so she can go find her husband and convince him to come home. In pops Kiran and she instantly wins over Zach and of course Doris. I loved reading this novel and to know there are second chances out there for everyone.
I received this ARC from Booksirens for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2024Format: KindleThe perfect cosy story you want to read when you feel blue or life is a bit too much.
Heartwarming, cute and well plotted. I liked the the pleasant and well-developed characters and it made me smile and have a good time.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine


























