I have said it before, and I will keep saying it: Go buy these books! Run…don’t walk…to your nearest bookstore. Or click here, and Buy Now. 🥰 Books 1-12 of The Wishing Tree series are available now (#9 reviewed below). The final book releases on October 13.

Full Book List:

• Book 1: The Wishing Tree
• Book 2: I Wish… by Amanda Prowse
• Book 3: Wish You Were Here by Kay Bratt
• Book 4: Wish Again by Tammy L. Grace
• Book 5: Workout Wishes & Valentine Kisses by Barbara Hinske
• Book 6: A Parade of Wishes by Camille Di Maio
• Book 7: Careful What You Wish by Ashley Farley
• Book 8: Gone Wishing by Jessie Newton
• Book 9: Wishful Thinking by Kay Bratt
• Book 10: Overdue Wishes by Tammy L. Grace
• Book 11: A Whole Heap of Wishes by Amanda Prowse
• Book 12: Wishes of Home by Barbara Hinske
• Book 13: Wishful Witness by Tonya Kappes

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Book Review

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5 Stars For Wishful Thinking By Kay Bratt

The Wishing Tree Series Book 9

140 pages
Publisher: Red Thread Publishing Group
Publication Date: September 8, 2022
Purchased on Amazon

Publisher’s Description

Wishes in branches tied with string. Someone’s hopes. Another’s dreams.

Janie Stallard is carving out a new life for herself as the newest business owner in Linden Falls, overseeing a small shop called Wishful Thinking. In her spare time, she helps her aunt Neva run the Wishing Tree Inn. Things are moving along and as soon as Janie’s divorce is finalized, she will finally be free to fully embrace all the changes. But is that what her heart truly desires?

Coco Baines is a guest in the Wishing Tree Inn and has only one priority for her stay; she plans to be in town (and in the gym) long enough to return to her job looking like the svelte anchorwoman her boss expects her to be, no matter how unfair she believes the outdated stereotype to be. She has to have that promotion!

When a rampant rumor in town becomes truth that a new business owner has bought the land the Wishing tree sits on and plans to take it down, the whole town is in an uproar. Even with Janie and Coco both working hard to divert the crisis, it will take more than a few wishes to save it. A miracle is what they need.

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Main Characters:

• Coco (Courtney) Baines – a field reporter who takes a leave to Linden Falls where no one knows her so she can lose weight in order to get promoted to on-air news anchor
• Janie Stallard – a relatively recent transplant to Linden Falls when she discovered she had connections there, Neva’s niece, just opened a shop centered on natural healing
• Calvin Phelps – Linden Falls’ local reporter
• Max Stallard – Janie’s estranged husband, successful high-end event planner

The latest addition to the Wishing Tree Series centers around Janie, who we first met in Wish You Were Here (book #3 reviewed in Folklore or Magic? That’s for Us to Decide) also by Kay Bratt, and Coco Baines, the newest person to seek a change and some anonymity in Linden Falls.

Janie has begun building a new life in Linden Falls. Ready for her divorce to be finalized from her successful and wealthy event planner husband Max, she’s opened a shop called Wishful Thinking selling natural remedies. She encounters Coco for the first time after Coco has an embarrassing mishap at the gym and goes in search of a quick fix for weight loss. Coco has dreams of her own for a promotion, but she works in television journalism where looks seem to play a huge factor in success—unfair as that may seem.

Janie and Coco’s stories merge when Janie’s soon-to-be-ex husband Max shows up in town and local reporter Calvin is sidelined and needs someone to take the lead in running down a story. A new building owner in town wants to take down the storied Wishing Tree. (Say it ain’t so!) Enter Max who tries to give Janie and the townspeople advice on how to save the tree, but Janie rejects him at every turn.

As readers, we see what’s coming with both women, and I was cheering for Calvin and Max. Coco (who begins to go by her real name Courtney), Max, and Calvin are wonderful new residents in the Linden Falls story. And of course, the Wishing Tree can’t be cut down. It’s pretty much THE main character in Linden Falls. 😉

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