This was a delight to dive into with three great reading authors waiting inside. I was working my way through the sisters series so was very pleased with the author line up. With the title you get three very much stories that bring you the feeling of home. As a grandparent Fern gave us a story that touches on my emotional strings strongly especially since I love all my grandchildren to pieces. Samantha has a special story that takes her home with us following her.
Then another fabulous author gives us one that plays with our heart and gives us home. Bonus it also held a second chance that rev up the engine is putting it lightly. We follow Katie to see where her future takes her.
The last author I do not read as much as I like but I do when I can so was most pleased to see her in this. It also brought memories when I bonded with my father in hospice like never before. So to say this one tore at my heart would not be a lie but the sunshine that came with it brightened the day.

This is a fabulous anthology from some great authors. Donna Kaufman’s story was my favorite! I could feel Samantha’s turmoil. Worth the read!

This anthology of three stories was very enjoyable. I love each story for different reasons. The first in the book, by Fern Michaels was unique and a special twist to the meaning of coming home. The second, by Donna Kauffman is a continuation of the Blue Hollow Falls series, which I am a fan and liked visiting the Falls and the characters again. The third, by Melissa Storm is a bit heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.

I enjoy reading books by new authors and this book introduced me to Fern Michaels and Melissa Storm. I liked their writing style, character development and plots. I am a fan of Donna Kauffman, who always does an excellent job in creating a world in her books that I like to visit and become a member of the community.

I want to thank Kensington Books and NetGalley.com for allowing me to read the advance reader copy of this book. My review is my own opinion not influence by receiving the ARC.

Home Sweet Home is a collection of three short stories by three different authors, all of which involve homecomings. The story by Fern Michaels is a spy thriller romance. The story by Donna Kauffman is a traditional romance, and the story by Melissa Storm is about a family battling cancer. All three are entertaining reads about family, love , and heartache. 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4.

I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley. My review is voluntary.

While I read each story in the book and thoroughly enjoyed each one, this review is for Blue Hollow Falls:New Beginnings by Donna Kauffman.
Katie is at her sister, Pippa and Seth's house helping her sister out during her pregnancy until the blessed event happens. This story is about her lost love to Declan and how they reconnect in Blue Hollow Falls and fall right back in love with each other and have their happily ever after.
Another wonderful installment in the Blue Hollow Fall Series that you will love until the end.

I chose to read this anthology for Donna Kauffman's Blue Hollow Falls-New Beginnings. I have never read Fern Michaels or Melissa Storm before. I was unsure about Fern Michaels' Three's A Crowd until the end. It read like a suspense thriller short story and not a romance at all. Melissa Storm's story Bring Me Home did not impress me at all. In fact I found it depressing, dealing with a daughter going through cancer treatment with her father. There was a couple at the end of the story but it wasn't their love story. It was overall depressing to me.

Fern Michael's Three's A Crowd is about reporter Samantha Stewart returning home with a 8 month old daughter after spending 3 years overseas, part of the time imbedded with the military in Afghanistan. She told no one she had a daughter and secrecy surrounds her missing husband. There is no love story here, just questions and potential threat.

Donna Kauffman's New Beginnings is a second chance love story about singer Pippa's sister and Personal Assistant Katie MacMillan of Dublin. Pippa is confined to bed rest for the duration of her pregnancy and Katie is there to keep things calm and run interference with the multitudes of family and friends trying to visit. She arrives and finds Declan MacGregor is also made his home there. He was taken into her family at age 10 and she's been in love with him for most of her life. They finally clear the air about how they feel about each other. Seems Declan was dealing with guilt over loving a sister, even if they weren't blood. Pippa's delivery gives us all a delightful surprise for those following the series.

Melissa Storm's Bring Me Home is a story of a father who has pancreatic cancer going in for chemo treatments. He and his daughter Hazel are very close as his wife died when Hazel was 3. Frank is an architect and Hazel has an interior design business that her Dad's clients often make use of. This story is about a daughter losing her beloved father and him coming clean about what happened with her mother. Along the way she makes some friends, 3 other woman who have family undergoing chemo treatments.We also meet a compassionate and very good looking male nurse. Of course she and the nurse fall in love but the story doesn't detail their story. It's mostly about Hazel and her Dad Frank. Sorry but I was not impressed and it was not a romance story.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced readers copy of the book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was three short stories with the theme of home. All were very good stories. Very enjoyable, very quick reads with wonderful characters.
I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley and the publisher and voluntarily chose to review it.

In the wonderful new book we are gifted with three romantic shorts that will definitely get you in the mood for love and romance.
In the first short we meet Samantha Stewart who is returning home after several years to spend Mothers Day with her family. She has a daughter that her parents have never met, and is worried about how this reunion will turn out. You see Samantha has spent her life traveling as an overseas reporter and although this life has been very exciting as well as fulfilling it is time for a change. Having a daughter to take care of has her re-evaluating her life and the changes she feels she needs to make.
In the second short Katie MacMillan has come to Blue Hollow Falls to help her sister who is very much pregnant. She feels an instant connection with the small town which starts her looking at where her future may be headed. When she runs into her childhood bully and first crush Declan MacGregor old feelings resurface and have.her questioning everything. Can she let old hurts go and look toward a future with a man who has always made her unsure?
In the third short we meet Hazel Long whose life at the moment is spent by spending time with her sick father. He's in the hospital unable to leave the bed, visiting him engulfs her with bittersweet feelings that she isn't sure how to deal with. When her father pulls her in with a story about another she doesn't really know it helps her view her father in a different way.
A great read filled with heart warming stories that will have you laughing, crying, and in the end happy and smiling!

This is a collection of three novellas by Fern Michaels, Donna Kauffman and Melissa Storm. The three stories all revolve around home and family, those two things that mean the most to all of us.
The three stories varied widely. Three's a Crowd by Fern Michaels is the story of a reporter who had been overseas, but is now returning home to her parents bearing quite the surprise. New Beginnings in Blue Hallow Falls by Donna Kauffman is actually more of a story about some family members who are finding a new place to call home and a new place to fall in love. Bring Me Home by Melissa Storm is about a woman who must go through the process of her father's failing health while discovering things about his past that he had kept hidden. She might also find someone along the way to love her when she's all alone,
The Donna Kauffman story was my favorite. That story seemed to transport me to a place of magic, faeries and love. And Pippa! Oh, Pippa! Loved it!
I was given a complimentary copy of this book via NetGalley. All thoughts are my own.

This is basically three short stories all loosely tied together with homecomings of a sort.
Fern Michaels Three's a Crowd
Samantha has been keeping things from her family and she's about to unleash a huge secret, her eight month old daughter Caroline. After returning from an overseas assignment she's trying to get back to some type of normal. First step, don't tell anyone the full truth. Second step, totally flip out over flowers. Third step, I'm pretty sure we missed this one because I've never seen something get wrapped up so quickly you're head is going to spin. I actually reread the page three times. Sorry, but this went from I can't talk, to spilling my guts, to oh wait there's more, really you couldn't add a day or some sort of explanation before you tied a big bow?

NEW BEGINNINGS IN BLUE HOLLOW FALLS by Donna Kauffman

This story was well worth the read. I've not read anything in this series yet it was easy to get right into it. The youngest in the clan has come to keep her heavily pregnant elder sister company while she's on bedrest and ward off the family visits. Katie is fierce and ready to settle down. She doesn't expect to face Declan after so much time apart. Her other half as far as she's concerned and now fate may have finally stepped in to give them their chance.

Bring me Home by Melissa Storm
Hazel is learning life isn't always what we're told it is, there are half truths and secrets. When her fathers health is declining he decides to share the truths of her mother. It's a bittersweet time as they spend as much time together as possible. And the tiny ray of sunshine that comes from making new friends who know what Hazel is dealing with. Throw in a hot nurse named Keith and our story is complete.
Be prepared for an emotional roller coaster, this is not the sweet coming home tonne you were expecting.

Honestly I would have only read the Donna Kauffman story of I hadn't committed to a review.

5 stars for all three stories!!!!!


This is my first Fern Michaels book, can you believe that? I really enjoyed the writing style and character development.


If I am being honest, I read this book because there was a Blue Hollow Falls story in it by Donna Kauffman . I loved reading about Katie's story and her new beginning in Blue Hollow Falls. The author has an incredible talent for crafting descriptive stories with relatable characters. 


Bring me home by Melissa Storm was incredible! I love the theme of making the most of every day. Hazel's characters is complex and well fleshed out. Fun fact , Bring me Home is a prequel to "The Sunday Potluck Club " which I am dying to get my hands on.

Rating the three stories in this anthology, I’d have to give it four stars however rating them separately, I would give Blue Hollow Falls: New Beginnings by Donna Kauffman a full five stars, or more, if I could.

In Three’s A Crowd by Fern Michaels, Samantha Stewart has been out of the country reporting in a war zone. She returns to the States, with a baby she has told no one about, and that incudes her parents. It’s hard to say much about the story without spoilers so I will say that we learn what happened in the time she was away and it touched my heart.

In New Beginnings in Blue Hollow Falls by Donna Kauffman, Katie MacMillan – Katherine Elizabeth to her mum – is staying with her pregnant sister (Pippa, whom we met in previous BHF stories; LOVE them!) and her husband Seth. Pippa is experiencing some difficulties with her pregnancy and Katie is playing gatekeeper for all the visitors who arrive. Declan MacGregor, someone from her past in Ireland, has also come to Blue Hollow Falls, ostensibly to take photos. However, when he arrives, he feels as if he has “come home”. What I can tell you about this story is that it is mostly told from the hearts and minds of Katie and Declan and just grabbed my heart and soul, as all the other stories in this series has. It’s a standalone so no worries however characters from other Donna Kauffman Blue Hollow Falls stories show up and I love knowing characters when I read. Love, love, love this story!

In Bring Me Home by Melissa Storm, Hazel sits with her dad during a health crisis and the two of them work through some memories that didn’t happen quite the way Hazel has been told. As her dad nears the end of his life, their close relationship only strengthens. And Hazel’s difficult journey is helped by people she would never think to rely upon.

This book is actually three shorter stories: Three's A Crowd by Fern Michaels; New Beginnings in Blue Hollow Falls by Donna Kauffman; and Bring Me Home by Melissa Storm.

Three's A Crowd by Fern Michaels - 4 star
Samantha Stewart is an international news correspondent and has spent the past three years overseas. Sam was excited and nervous at seeing her parents again. What would they think of the secret she has been hiding in the form of her 8 month old daughter, Caroline? Of course they were were a little hurt, but mostly excited to being grandparents! Just as Sam is trying to settle back into being in the United States, something surprising from her past shows up again and it could make life really interesting.

Blue Hollow Falls: New Beginnings by Donna Kauffman - 5 star
Katie MacMillan, Pippa's sister has permanently moved to Blue Hollow Falls. She is excited to be with her sister again while awaiting the new baby, but even more important, Katie is looking forward to a new beginning in her life. Imagine her surprise when Katie finds out that Declan MacGregor is also in Blue Hollow Falls. Declan may have been Katie's first crush back in high school, but she has never forgotten him. It turns out Declan has never forgotten her either and quickly they come to find a second chance at love and their happy ending!

Bring Me Home by Melissa Storm - 3 star
Hazel Long lost her mother at a very young age and it has always been just her and her dad. Now when Hazel finds out that her dad has cancer it feels like her world is crashing down. Through the trips to the hospital Hazel meets three other women with family going through the same "C" diagnosis as well as the hunky chemo nurse, Keith. As things with Hazel's dad deteriorates, her new friends and boyfriend help her to navigate through the emotions.

Overall I enjoyed the first book; loved the second book and had a hard time with the third book (cancer is a hard topic for me to read) but I did enjoy all of the characters and their stories.

3 story stories. 2 of finding their loves again and 1 finding her love at the darkest time of her Life. My favourite of the 3 was Blue Hallow Falls by Donna Kauffman. It had more characters and the Irish element got me hooked.

Three short stories in one book. Very touching stories that melt your heart. I enjoyed reading them.

These were three very different stories - all very good.
Three's a crowd was about a young woman who had a child and marriage that she had not told her parents about. Her husband was thought to be dead and she was going home to raise her child with her parents. They were understandably hurt, but loved her and the child. When something strange happens, her father digs in to help uncover what is happening. A very good ending

Blue Hollow Falls - I loved this story as we got to visit with old friends from past book. Two peope who were drawn to each other as children but did not act on it. 10 years later, those feeling are still there and they have to be brave enough to actr upon it. I love Pippa's surprise and the ending was very sweet

Bring me home just broke my heart - A father tells his daughter some bad news but in the coming weeks, he starts to tell her some truths about his life with her mother (who died when she was very young). In the course of her father's treatments, she meets some women who help support her and a nurse who is a lifeline and love. You can't read this story without crying your eyes out. A very good story with a good message

Home Sweet Home is an anthology by three well-known romance authors, Fern Michaels, Donna Kauffman and Melissa Storm. All of the stories are about homecomings. From there they branch off..

Three’s the Crowd by Fern Michaels deals more with parental relationships, life choices and how they can change over time. Samantha is returning home with a young daughter. Her priorities are different from when she left. Not as much of a strong romance as the other two stores in the anthology.

New Beginnings in Blue Hollow Falls by Donna Kauffman is part of the Blue Ridge Blue Hollow Falls Series. Fans of the series will love this addition to the anthology but there are many supporting characters. It is the truest romance of the three stories.

Bring Me Home by Melissa Storm is another strong parental relationship story. Hazel’s father is terminally ill so she has come home to help him. Difficult times for this small family when Hazel had already lost her mother at a young age. There is a new romance for Hazel as she cares for her father but it is the close father daughter relationship that steals the show.

An ARC of the book was given to me by the publisher through Net Galley which I voluntarily chose to read and reviewed. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

It is difficult to rate a trio of novellas, as was the case with 'Home Sweet Home' for me. Fortunately it included a visit to Blue Hollow Falls which always is a joy. I thought the offering by Fern Michaels was intriguing, with a tantalizing slow reveal to the ending. I adored Declan and Katie's story. I feel like I know the inhabitants of Donna Kauffman's world and love the positive messages she provides. I felt as if Melissa Storm's story was painful, not poignant. I was a young widow, as well as nursing my father as he died in his home, so I have unfortunate experience with loss. I did not find as much hope as others expressed. Perhaps if the story was in a longer format I could have been led to a different emotion with the ending, however I have just been left uncomfortable.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. The opinions expressed n this review are entirely my own.

Thank you NetGalley and Kensington. I just finished reading Home Sweet Home. Great stories! Fern Michaels story was a little predictable, but seem to flash forward to the Epilogue. I thought maybe I missed a few pages.
I love the Donna Kauffman story on Blue Hollow Falls....will definitely be looking to read more on that series.
Melissa Storm story really related to me, my mother went thru the same thing. Have the tissue ready.
Home Sweet Home are 3 stories that tells of different ways home.

This collection of stories for me was only fair. My favorite was the one by Melissa Storm. The others were predictable. Melissa Storm's was very well written and tugged at the heart strings.