Tuesday, 30 September 2025

πŸ’œ THE HOMEMAKER πŸ“š Jewel E. Ann 🌼 #ChainOfLakes1 🌊

 


• 30 September 2025
• The Chain of Lakes Series #1

★★★
4 Stars

A romance inspired by TS “Fortnight”

I was hers, but she was never mine.

Alice Yates is the hired “homemaker” for the Morrisons, an affluent couple in Minneapolis. For Alice, it’s a dream job to dress up like a 1950s housewife and read romance novels to Mr. Morrison before his afternoon nap.

But when the Morrisons’ only daughter returns home for the summer with her fiancΓ©, Alice comes face- to-face with her shattered past
the only threat to her perfect life.

Eight years earlier, vacation rental owner Murphy Paddon had an impeccable vinyl record collection and did the most irresistible thing before kissing Alice, earning him a five-star rating. Their fortnight love affair was life-altering and ended tragically.

Murphy doesn’t know if Alice remembers him or whether he should tell his fiancΓ©e that the hired-help living in the guesthouse is the woman who irreparably broke his heart. He needs closure, but will the lingering glances and silent yearning lead to the end or just the beginning?

Grab your copy of The Homemaker, from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Jewel E. Ann, and lose yourself in this forbidden, high-stakes romance.






Alice + Murphy

Alice is the new homemaker / house manager / maid in the Morrison household. She lives in the guest house and loves her job.
Enter Murphy. He's going to be living there too for the summer. To get ready for his upcoming wedding. To the daughter of the house.
Alice and Murphy know each other - they met eight years ago for two amazing and intense weeks.



That was ... I want to say adorable. And it had lots of that. But it had so much more heartbreak and sadness and PTSD and depression and grief and most importantly ... it had cheating! And I don't want that in my happy end romances. 
I hated that. And it didn't really get 'resolved' completely in the end. For the cheated upon person. 
I loved Alice and Murphy and the dad and everybody really. But I just hated the cheating part. And also... it's not really my thing if the hero and heroine are not together for 90% of the book.
It was a great story and I cried a few times, but I wanted things a bit different here and there.

THE HOMEMAKER was a sweet and sad and funny and  heartbreaking and hopeful second chance love story.



 LINKS TO THE BOOK AND AUTHOR 

 

OTHER BOOKS BY JEWEL:

Sunday Morning Trilogy Book #1

 

Book #2

 

Book #3

 

The Wildfire Series #1

 


Book #2
 


 



 



LIFE Duet - Book #1




Book #2




Life Duet #2 - Book #1
 

Life Duet #2 - Book #2





  


Fisherman Book #1
 

Book #2
 

 


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STAKING JEWEL...




Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.

With 10 years of flossing lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.

After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.

When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.