No, I don’t wish for more snow. Or any snow. But Rachel Hawthorne’s Snowed In was a nice little escape during this week’s cold snap.

Ashleigh and her recently divorced mother move to a small island off the coast of Michigan to run a bed and breakfast. The guest rooms are being redecorated over the off-season and the tourists are all visiting some place warmer, like the Texas city that Ashleigh just left behind. Coming from a huge high school with over a thousand kids in her class, she is very worried about enrolling in a school where the junior class has only 6 students. Also, dating might be a big problem. Ashleigh doesn’t believe in having a boyfriend, and likes to just date a guy a couple of times before moving on. What will she do with such a limited selection?

The first few guys she meets are all very cute, but all of the girls seem to have steady boyfriends. What is a girl to do when she is new in town and the snow is falling?

Rachel Hawthorne is the best teen romance writer I’ve ever read. She writes excellent, funny and light-hearted stories with occasional laugh out loud dialogue. She creates characters that I would want to hang out with and get to know better, and puts them in situations that are different from my own life, but still believable. Her novels are first-rate fun! Check out some of her other books  and tell me what you think!