Secretly Smitten is a collection of short stories that revolves
around the Thomas family, a group of women who are all looking for love and
they each find it in these stories, all set in the small town of Smitten. The story begins when the girls find dog tags
belonging to a man that is not their grandfather and they start unraveling the
story behind the man that owns the dog tags, leading Tess to love. She begins to get closer to David, a widower
with a young daughter, in order to gain access to his attic where she can
uncover some of the story for her grandmother.
Before she knows it, she has fallen in love with him.
Zoe is Tess’s sister and she wants to start a matchmaking
service in Smitten to help people find love.
While she is busy getting her business off the ground, she meets the new
city manager, William. While he is a
thorn in her side at first, doing everything he can to make sure she follows
all of the city codes and keeps safety as her number one priority, even if it
mean shutting down her first social event for her matchmaking service. Once she starts to understand where he is
coming from, they begin to see how compatible they are for each other.
Zoe and Tess’s mother, Anna, owns a knitting shop in Smitten
and loves to socialize with all of the women that come to her store to shop and
to knit. She enjoys their company and
even does not mind helping out the son of one of her customers, Michael, after
he hurts his ankle and has trouble getting around. As she checks in on him and runs errands for
him, she becomes more and more fond of him.
Before she knows it, she is visiting him well after his ankle has healed
and he even helps her with her new business venture, raising sheep in order to
harvest the wool to spin yarn. He even
lets her use an empty barn that he owns to raise the sheep in, and helps her
care for them as well. As time goes on,
they soon realize that they are in love.
Clare, Zoe and Tess’s sister, works at the local nursery and
hopes to one day own her own nursery and do what she truly loves, landscaping
and yard remodels. When her boss goes
out of town and she hires a drifter from out of town, she is not very
optimistic that he will work out, let alone take over things when she faints at
work and is forced to stay in bed until she gets better. Not only does Ethan do a good job, but goes
above and beyond when she gets sick and saves the day. As they work closely together each day, she
realizes that he is lonely and begins to invite him to dinner with her family,
and eventually they fall in love.
When the story began, the dog tags were a mystery and the
man that owned them was believed to be dead, until a secret is revealed that
Aunt Violet had seen him and tried to confess her love for him, he was not dead
after all, he just left town when his true love had married another man. This is a heartwarming story and I recommend
it to anyone who likes a good love
story.
