REVIEW - The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop (The Cadillac Series #3) by Carolyn Brown

The Book

Release Date: 14 July 2015

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Stella’s mama never should’ve put Stella on the church prayer list. With Stella’s twenty-seventh birthday coming up fast, Nancy desperately wants to see her daughter married and giving her grandbabies. Petitioning heaven seems like a surefire way to get it done. But in Cadillac, Texas, where the gossip’s hotter than the city’s famous jalapeño peppers, it isn’t long before all hell breaks loose.

Heather, the bossy leader of the church’s Prayer Angels, thinks a summer ball will get Stella and the town’s other single gals paired off. But nobody can tell redheaded spitfire Stella what to do—not her mama, not Heather, and not even the sexy beau Stella’s been seeing in secret. Together, Stella, her best friends Charlotte and Piper, and the loyal customers of the Yellow Rose Beauty Shop hatch a good old-fashioned scheme to sabotage the ball. But will it wreck Stella’s relationship with her mama forever? And what will the church folk think when Stella reveals the identity of her mystery man?

My Review   5 STARS 

**My thanks to NetGalley and Montlake Romance for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

So we are back in the small town in Texas and we still get to feisty old 80 year old Agnes getting into the thick of things and helping to cause trouble for Heather and her Aunt Violet.

Stella is one of the owners of The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop and her mother one day and the Angels prayer group foolishly says that she wants a husband for her daughter and she would dearly love to have grandchildren and Stella is her only child.

What happens next is a small town getting into the gossip, one lady who thinks she is above everyone sticking her oar in and organising events that suit her needs to in the guise of helping others and the church and Stella having to keep a massive secret from her family and friends.

Love how the dynamics work and that we get to see what the secret is long before others and that we have some other relationships thrown in there for good value and a mother realising that she has done something stupid and doing what she can to minimise the damage and help where she can.