Following His Heart by Donna Fasano

This book is the perfect antidote to how I felt after reading Wuthering Heights (though after chatting the book through with a friend, I do feel a bit better about WH - it just wasn't what I was expected).

Following His Heart is an easy-to-read romance the epitomises "chick lit". It follows the story of Sara, a widow in her 30s who runs her own baking company, selling directly to customers as well as supplying restaurants and other businesses cakes and desserts.

The blurb says:

Sara Carson is a 30-something widow with a busy life. Two fun-loving best friends, a caring mom who needs her, and a thriving sweet shop. What more could a woman want? But when the ancient plumbing in her shop springs a leak and a gorgeous, dark-eyed stranger rushes to her rescue, hilarity unfolds—and Sara quickly sees exactly what she’s been missing.

Something most peculiar draws Landon Richards to Ocean City, Maryland—and to the lovely Sara. This woman touches his heart like no other, and the two of them explore the heady attraction that pulses between them. But haunting dreams have a way of encroaching on reality, and the strange phenomenon that brings these two together will also threaten to tear them apart.

This is the first book in the Ocean City Boardwalk Series, where life for three enterprising women, Sara, Heather, and Cathy, isn’t just fun in the sun—love is waiting on those sandy shores!

This is a comforting story.  I read it in a day, and it left me feeling good.  It is predictable, but sometimes you just want to read something light and enjoyable to pass away the hours when lying in the sun in the garden (or on holiday if we weren't in lockdown due to coronavirus).  I enjoyed it.