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    Bitsy's Bait & BBQ

    By Pamela Morsi

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    "I just bought us a B & B on eBay!"

    While Emma Collins wonders who in their right mind would use her hard-won divorce settlement to purchase a bed-and-breakfast down in the Ozarks, her free-spirited sister Katy fantasizes dreamily about how this move to a small town will be just the thing for her six-year-old son, Josh.

    And, as usual, Emma is right. But it is not until they drive to Warbler Lake, Missouri, to take over Bitsy's B & B that they realize just how right she's been. In this part of the country, B & B stands for Bait and BBQ! The girls know little enough about running a bed-and-breakfast, but a bait-and-BBQ?

    With their money and futures sunk into a run-down, roadside rattletrap, the girls have no choice but to roll up their sleeves and get to work. But as they settle in and get to know the difference between fatheads, night crawlers, mealworms and shiners, no one is more surprised than they are when they actually get the place up and running.

    But trouble is brewing. Katy's ex-husband is having second thoughts about the custody arrangements for Josh, and he fully intends to get him back. With the prospect of losing the little boy, the sisters face another challenge, only this time it's Katy who proves that she, too, can solve a problem.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin MIRA
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9781460315095
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    Bitsy's Bait & BBQ
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    Pamela Morsi

    Pamela Morsi is a USA Today, Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble bestselling author of romance. She broke into publishing in 1991 with Heaven Sent and has been gracing readers with at least a book a year ever since. Two of her novels, Courting Miss Hattie (1992) and Something Shady (1996), won the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award, the highest honor in romance publishing, and others have been RITA finalists. Ms. Morsi pens heartwarming stories set in Small Town, USA. Her books are famous for their wit, humor, memorable characters, and down-home charm.

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    • 5/5
      A really sweet, gentle book about family and love. Katy buys a B & B online with her divorce settlement, only to find that it is a Bait and Barbecue, not a bed and breakfast. Katy, her son, and her mother hen sister try to make a go of it in this small town. Things are going well (except for the barbecue) until Katy's ex-mother in law begins to fight for custody of Katy's son.Just beautiful. A small town filled with characters welcoming newcomers into their community. A love that just needed some maturity. Just really sweet.
    • 4/5
      Bitsy's Bait & BBQ is the story of two sisters, uprooted from their native St. Louis, MO to a remote, run-down resort in the Ozarks. The two women work together to reopen the town's only restaurant and bait shop, Bitsy's Bait & BBQ. A crew of endearing townspeople are always available to help where they can, expecially when Katy's ex-husband and mother-in-law show up, looking for custody of their son, Josh. The story wobbles along companionably. The characters are unique and the plot doesn't always go exactly where you expect it to, (that's a good thing.) There aren't any deep, thought-provoking revelations, no emotionally wrenching drama. However, something about Pamela Morsi's novel makes you feel good inside. It's a good weekend beach read.
    • 5/5
      The beginning of each of the 31 chapters is a bit of wisdom from Bitsy, the woman who died and left her B&B to the town to sell and keep the proceeds to help Warbler Lake's citizens. Bits of wisdom like: "Use unsalted butter. You don't want somebody else deciding how much seasoning is right for you." or "Rub down your clean cooking grate with a smidgeon of oil. It will cut down on cursing when you're taking the meat off." or "Hornyhead minnows are often confused with creek chubs. Maybe you can't tell the difference, but the fish can." I loved reading this book. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. I can highly recommend this to anyone who likes a well-written, warm, and funny story. It's a soft, mellow book with soft, mellow good people and one or two harsh people who end up being mellower than the run-of-the-mill harsh person in other books. They are just harsh enough for the reader to dislike and hope that they get their come-uppance. The good people are wonderfully funny and sweet and you keep rooting for them.I liked watching Emma and Katy make friends in the town and learn how to sell bait and work the BBQ pit. The town is behind them and the support is heart-warming and funny to see. Five 'I wouldn't mind living in a town like Warbler Lake' beans......
    • 3/5
      I'll admit - I cried a bit at the end, even though it was predictable, cliched book with cardboard characters and cardboard motivation. My one big qualm with this book is the preaching - how every woman needs to be married to live a good life, how Christianity is the only way to live (Seriously, a 7 year old boy wanting to be babtised?) and how TV ruins young people.Its a good Sunday afternoon read where you have the entire plot figured out about a third of the way in.
    • 4/5
      I really liked this book. It's a bit formulaic, but not so much that it's totally predictable. There are some surprises, and the story is wholesome and heartwarming. Katy and Emma are sisters. Emma has always helped Katy out and now Katy is trying to stand on her own two feet after a devastating divorce. Katy buys a B & B on Ebay, thinking that means Bed and Breakfast. But really it means Bait and BBQ, which they find out only upon arriving in the very small town of Warbler Lake. Just about the time they get settled there, along comes Katy's ex-husband and ex-mother in law, trying to get custody of Katy's son. The book is basically what happens from there, and it really is a lovely depiction of small town life and a sweet romance. I'm not an easy cryer, but I admit that this book brought tears to my eyes. It's a bit like a Hallmark made for TV movie, but it is nicely written, and the character development is well done. The people are interesting and this woman also knows her bait! :o) This is not great literature, but it did make for a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon read.
    • 3/5
      I needed something light & unabsorbing to get back into reading after HP7. This was sort of it. You know those books that you finish just to see if you correctly guessed what would happen? This is one of those. Very predictable, but the characters & locale were easy to love. Great vacation book or airplane/airport book (which is exactly where I was!)
    • 3/5
      This book is not all that well written, and it is mostly very predictable, but neither of these things means it isn't touching. Sisters Katy and Emma, along with Katy's son Josh, come to a small town in Missouri to open what they think is a bed and breakfast. Once they get there, they find that B&B actually stands for "Bait & BBQ." With the cheerful support of the eccentric townspeople, Katy finds a way to be successful. While trying to get the business of the ground, Katy must deal with her ex-husband and his mother, who have reentered her life after several years and are threatening to press for custody of 5-year-old Josh. Not to worry (as if you would) -- it all works out in the end.