This is a short story sequel to Vanessa Greene's The Vintage Teacup Club. I absolutely adored the first book and the characters of Jenny, Maggie, and Allison. It is a year after the events in the first book.

We now have Jenny getting ready to go on tour as a children's book author. Maggie is still dealing with being a new mother to her son Leo and a partner to Owen. Alison is happy since she is now a co-owner of the cafe and art gallery that her best friend started in the last novel.

I am sad to say that though I loved the first book this short story by Vanessa Greene really did not work for me. I think the problem was that she had three distinct story-lines going on and everything was happening at a breakneck pace. We had Jenny trying to deal with her brother's secret; Maggie trying to keep her sanity due to having a newborn; and Alison worrying about the new coffee house that opened up across the street from her cafe. The three women barely had any scenes together and none of the story-lines were meshed well. I think this should have just been a full fledged novel so that Vanessa Greene could have fully fleshed out everything and not had all of the plots wrap up in a nice tidy bow after 48 pages. I hope that if she revisits these characters in a future novel it is a full length novel so we can get enough time to enjoy all of the characters. ( )