I enjoyed these stories however, I am not a great lover of novella's. This is three stories in one book which are all connected and intertwined in the same town in Maine set around Halloween. I loved reading about the town of Moonbright, I would just like longer stories so you can really immerse yourself in the story and the details. I would recommend this story to anyone that enjoys the novella format and they are lovely romantic stories.
Thank you to Netgalley, Marina Adair, Kate Angell, Stacy Finz and Kensington Books for the opportunity of reading this as an arc

A fun read centered on a small town in Maine and an old Halloween legend. Three different authors share their stories about love and Halloween. Cute.

Three stories of finding true love at Halloween.

In Moonbright, Maine, a legend promises that a woman who glances into a reflective surface on Halloween will see the man she's destined to marry.

Love Over Easy brings us sweet local Hannah who reunited with bad boy Jake while at the Moonbright Halloween parade. But could this chance encounter lead to happily ever after>

Love Rising bring us baker Sydney who has returned to sell her deceased grandmother's estate only to find hot tradie Nick building an unexpected commercial kitchen that her grandmother had paid for before she died. With high school pasts causing tension between the two, will her grandmother's attempt to bring them together work?

In Romance On Tap Mila saw her future with Ford James right from young, but after one kiss he left her for someone else. Years later she decides she's been cursed in relationships by him and needs to kiss him again to break it. Only it wasn't Ford but his twin Hudson. So is Ford James the one she was destined to be with after all?

Each story is sweet, varies in length and by a different author. The first two cross over slightly, the third seems quite separate. A nice way to check out three new authors and see which writing styles appeal. I enjoyed them all and will check out each author individually.

Sweet with a side of sizzle! All 3 stories were nice, light HEA’s perfect for curling up in front of the fireplace on a chilly Fall evening! I swear I could smell the baked goods. Hope there are more Moonbright Maine stories to come!

Within moon bright Maine there’s a pumpkin on each porch fresh brewed apple cider in every cup and a touch of the sweetest sorcery in the air. This is a well written collection that calls to mind brisk autumn nights cuddled w a loved one. Each pairing comes to fruition in a unique way.

This is a super fun read. I really enjoyed this one!

Many thanks to the author, the publisher, and Netgalley for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

A fun triptych, 3 different authors, same town in Maine. I loved the Finz installment, liked the Adair, was not too keen on the Angell chapters. I guess that’s par for the course with multiple authors. The first 40% was Angell and it was too saccharine for my taste. Stacy Finz always brings the humor and down to earth romance and this was a terrific example. She even brought her Nugget family to Maine. I appreciated the Adair plot involving international adoptees, an issue rarely covered in the genre. Overall I was happy to have read it and discovered new authors.

I love this series so much! The setting is so sweet and cozy, the characters are complex, and the happy endings seem well-deserved. My one issue with this collection is that the first story resolved so quickly I felt like I got whiplash. A few more pages to bring the couple around to their HEA would have been beneficial to the storytelling.

Weather or not you believe in magic or even fate, these three delightful stories will have you entertained for a few hours. Three amazing authors take us on a fun trip through Moonbright Maine during the Halloween season. There is a "lore" to the cozy town that keeps you reading to see if it comes true for these characters.
Each story had me laughing and had some heartwarming moments and not without a little romance. (I have to admit Jake and Hannah were my favorite couple) The writing was descriptive and made me really want to be visiting the corner cafe and spending time with some of the towns people. Just a little warning.....reading this book will definitely have you craving moonpies, pie , cake and all kinds of yummy home cooking and baked good. Not to mention Halloween candy galore!
Two of the authors were new to me and I will definitely be reading more of their books.I found each story entertaining and enjoyable. Even though the story takes place in Autumn, I will enjoy rereading these books all year long.

Three authors collaborate in this trio of fun tales of Moonbright, Maine. The legend continues.
Love Over Easy written by Kate Angell brings us Hannah Allan, sweet, good-hearted and maybe a little clumsy. She hasn’t found her forever love. Legend has it she’ll see him in a mirrored image on Halloween, but she’s disheartened.
Jake Kaylor; not looking for love, but something about Hannah intrigues him. Ms. Angell weaves her tale around the pair and their families and throws a bit of competition in, just to add some spice. She’s added humor, love and a little angst for the perfect mix.
Love Rising by Stacy Finz has Sydney returning to town to settle her grandmother’s estate...at Halloween and includes a second chance with her first love, Nick Rossi. The pain in their past needs to be worked through as well as present day problems for them to get that chance. Humorous and sweet
Romance On Tap is Marina Adair’s contribution to the trio. Mila Cramer has mooned over Ford James for years. This year she thinks she has a chance only to find out the man in costume was his twin, Hudson….and that’s not all that comes to light. Humor, sweetness and a little steam make Ms. Adair’s addition a sweet Halloween treat.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Kensington for the opportunity to read and review this book.
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The Cafe’ Between Pumpkin And Pie is an anthology of three stories that connect.
All the stories take place in the town of Moonbright, Maine during Halloween. All are very sweet and fun.
This book is as delicious, mostly, as the offerings from the titular cafe’. These stories are charming!! Let me start by saying that I REALLY want to try the whoopie pies. After I write this review, I’m going to try to find one. Although this book does include the recipes for some of the cafe’ favorites, I’m not much of a cook. Each story features different residents of the town and all centering around the bakery. The first story was my favorite. Hannah and Jake felt the most real to me than the other characters, although I loved them too. Sydney and Nick, in the second story, took me a little longer than the others because Nick was hard to like at times. He was kind of misogynistic. Sydney was an enjoyable character. She was funny and stubborn. The third story was about Mila, who is a Vietnamese girl who is taking care of her elderly, adoptive parents. This story was the hardest for me to like. The characters were not as likable and the story didn’t flow as well as the others. I liked the plot of the third story though. It was a bit more original than the others.
Each one of these authors shows a lot of promise. The writing, as a whole, was good. This book accomplished the intended job of making the reader feel good. I fully intend to read the previous two books in this series.

I love Stacy Finz' world creation Nugget, so I was anxious to read this anthology. It was really hit and miss for me. I enjoyed the romance, am negative on the graphic sexuality and liked the characters. I will stick with Stacy, but will pass on the other authors.

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

I have voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this book given to me via NetGalley. I was interested because of Kate Angell. There was humor and omg the heat in this book! I devoured this book. Don't hesitate get this book!

Thank you Netgalley, Marina Adair; Kate Angell; Stacy Finz and Kensington Books for the ARC of The Café between Pumpkin and Pie. This is my personal review.
This was a fun and easy book to read. It is three stories in one and each is taking place in Moonbright, Maine. The setting for the stories in Halloween time. This is a town that loves Halloween, and it gets a lot of tourists for the big celebration there.
The romances are wonderful in each story.

I really liked this book, and would recommend it to others! I loved the short story format and that they were all connected by the same lovely town. I think every book should be set in Maine!

I wish each story was a bit longer to really dive into the town. I knew so much about houses and cafes, but not a lot about the town or the area. Even the flying scene in the third story didn’t tell me enough about the landscape.

Thanks, NetGalley!

The book is 3 romances written by 3 different authors in the same cute town of Moonbright Maine. Although written by 3 different authors they are similar in writing style and pace. It was an easy read with all the fall feels everyone loves: pumpkin spice, pastries, festivities, cold weather and candy. Each story has a woman finding her true love through the magic of the Moonbright Halloween lore. Although each story is unique and complete they do reference each other. These were a fun, enjoyable read for me which elicited all the good love emotions and tingles you’d expect from a good romance. Thank you Marina Adair, Kate Angell and Stacy Finz for writing these adorable stories and for Kensington Publishing for allowing me to read and review it.

I was drawn to The Cafe Between Pumpkin and Pie because I love books about food, and I especially love pumpkin flavored foods and drinks that show up every fall. I’ve read many cozy mysteries set in small towns, and I assumed it would remind me of those. I was wrong.

The Cafe Between Pumpkin and Pie is a set of three connected novellas all set in around the annual Halloween Parade in Moonbright, Maine. It is the third in a series about Moonbright, Maine. There is a legend in the town that women will see the person they will marry in a reflection on Halloween. Each novella is connected and the central characters in each show up in the others.

In “Love Over Easy,” Hannah, who works at the town diner, falls for Jake, who her older sister had a relationship with in high school. “Love Rising” is about Sydney, a successful baker from San Francisco, who returns to Moonbright to handle her grandmother’s affairs after her passing. Sydney learns that her grandmother had hired a contractor, Nick, to upgrade her kitchen, and she ends up romantically involved with him. In “Romance on Tap,” Mila, an artist ends up revisiting a high school crush.

The premise of the Halloween reveal of a woman’s future spouse struck me as misogynistic and heteronormative. It makes it seem like there is larger than necessary focus on finding husbands for the women in the town, and there never is any consideration that any of the women would many someone who is not a man. Hannah gets very upset when she thinks the man she sees in the reflection is not the person she hopes it will be (of course, she could still be with the person she wants to date…)

This overtone permeates the rest of the stories as well. One man in Romance on Tap, the third of the shorts, tells his brother to give back his “man card” when he says something that might be coded as feminine. In the same novella, Hudson pretends to be his twin so he can kiss, Mila, the girl (and then woman) he likes, twice! Moments like this frustrated me and made it hard for me to like any of the male characters in the stories.

It might be because “Love Over Easy”, “Love Rising”, and “Romance on Tap” are all shorter than an average novel, but the romance in each felt very rushed. I didn’t feel as though I had the time to get invested in any of the relationships before the stories ended and the couples were living their “happily ever afters.” It was hard to believe, for example, that Nick would fly all the way to San Francisco from Maine to help Sydney because their romance isn’t developed enough.

I really wanted to like The Café Between Pumpkin and Pie, but I had a hard time getting into any of the stories. It didn’t fill me with the warm and cozy feelings I was hoping it would.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. This book has three short romance stories that take place in Maine. Three single women each meet their prince charming around Halloween. This book was a quick read and quite enjoyable.

I received an advance copy of, The Cafe between Pumpkin and Pie, by Marina Adair, Kate Angell, and Stacy Finz. I liked the three stories in this book. I love fall and pumpkins and pie, and the sweet fragrant smells. They are 3 sweet love stories.

A great collection of book that mesh well between the three authors. Moonbright, Maine is THE place for Halloween. All of the stories take place in the same place at the same time. These stories had me wishing I could move there and enjoy all of the small town joy that exudes from it's streets. I want sweets that only Bellaluna can provide. Have Chip fix things around my house. Have a dinner that Caleb cooked. and stop by Town Hall and trade wits with Edna.