Love the story. Characters described and believable. Will continue to pick up Susanne O’Leary books.

I felt completely at home reading this book, being back in Sandy Cove and at Willow House. It has been a while since I read the second book int the series, but with the first mentions of Phil, Maeve and Roisin, things came rushing back to me.

That being said it can easily be read as a standalone as we have a whole new main character, Cordelia, who appears to be a long lost relative of the family. But just what is she hiding and what secrets will be uncovered about the McKenna family generally.

I really enjoyed seeing just where this story would take Cordelia, her new found friendship with Sally, and seeing how drawn towards Declan she is. It was interesting seeing Ireland through the eyes of an American, and her searching for her real roots is interesting.

A really warm and easy to get into story, that I was very invested in. Another strong addition to the series.

Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily,

Cordelia arrives in Ireland for the funeral of Phil, the aunt that she met when Phil was doing a book tour in the States, but Cordelia wasn't strictly honest with Phil who had been looking for her cousin Frances, Cordelia's mother, all the details matched apart from her mother's surname! When the will is read and Cordelia finds she has been left a third of the estate she is horrified she is going to have to prove who she is!

A great third book in the series and lovely to be back with all of the characters from the first two books, I love the descriptions of Sandy Bay and the the beautiful Willow House and can definitely recommend the whole series

Cordelia is traveling to Ireland for the funeral of her beloved aunt. She had just connected with this family tie and is heartsick that the time was so short. Now she is meeting her cousins at Willow House which she is inherited a 1/3 share. Will the family be torn apart when they examine the photos Cordelia has. Happily we get to revisit Maeve and Roisin from the previous books. Can be read as a stand alone but you'll want to read Secrets of Willow House and Dreams of Willow House. The family saga is wonder and real. I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

When Cordelia returns to her home town and Willow house, she reconnects with some of her family and is drawn to an outsider. The rest of the family is not happy to see her and is upset that she will inherit some of Willow House. Her work to prove she is part of the family and search through their history is more painful than anyone realizes. She begins to unravel lies that have been told for generations and decides whether to trust the mysterious man who has swept her off her feet. I enjoyed this book, most of which takes place in Ireland, This was a good plot with great characters. A nice read. Thanks to Net Galley for an advanced reader’s copy.

Cordelia gets a second chance for happiness with family in Ireland. Secrets to uncover and a love of a new country and a town make her life renewed. Great Book

Dreams of Willow House is a well written romance with a touch of mystery. Good plot, writing and character development. A beautiful setting. My thanks to the publisher for my advance ebook. This is my unbiased review.

Cordelia is living a lie and waiting to be caught out.
After the death of her Irish mother Frances, she is all alone in the world. Then she watches her favourite author Philomena on TV say she wants to find her long lost cousin Frances. Cordelia contacts her and says Frances was her mother despite knowing that the surnames are not a match. She and author Phil become close but sadly Phil dies. Cordelia travels to Ireland for Phil’s funeral and is nervous about being caught out by her supposed family.
The McKenna family welcome Cordelia, grateful that she looked after Phil in her last few months but concerned that there is no evidence they were actually related. When they discovers she has inherited part of Phil’s family home and estate, Cordelia decides to investigate her mother’s history and find out if she could be the long lost family she has been dreaming of.
Dreams of Willow House is a warm feel-good novel about love and family. Cordelia is a kind person and is driven by her loneliness to lie about her family history. She genuinely loved Phil and is devastated by her death. Now she must begin to get to know her cousins and gain their trust, whilst fearing that she is not actually related and that they will reject her.
Cordelia also develops a romantic relationship with Declan during the course of the book. This adds an extra dimension to the plot as well as showing us another side to her character.
This book is actually the third in the Willow House series but the first that I have read. The books works perfectly well as a stand-alone novel, although now I want to read about the back stories to Maeve and Roisin.
I personally enjoyed finding out more about the history, language and geography of Ireland which provides a rich background to the narrative. Susanne O’Leary has evoked and captured the magic of Irish and it is no surprise that Cordelia feels at home at last.

This is book #3 in the Sandy Cove series. It can be read as a standalone. I have read and enjoyed the entire series. This one is just as charming with returning charcters readers love. This is a charming family fiction trilogy set in Ireland that is fun to read and endearing to the reader.

Thank you for the ARC for review.. My review opinions are my own. This is a book I highly recommend.

The story continues in Ireland with Cordelia Mirafiore who is visiting Sandy Cove for a reading of a relative's will. She falls in love with the landscape and the Irish coast and realizes how much it appeals to her. During the will reading some mystery is reveled that she owns part of a family home! She is thrilled but when approached to prove her heritage she must figure out how to do that before she is kicked out of her ancestral home and has to leave Ireland in shame. .She meets a handsome stranger she is drawn to and two cousins who are welcoming but she has a lot to prove before she can claim her new life . She has some old letters and stories from her Mother but she must prove without a shadow of a doubt that she is family and she is determined to do just that.

I loved this endearing series with lovely setting of the Irish coast. The writing is pleasing and the charcters are enjoyable. I recommend this 3rd in series for your reading enjoyment.

3.5 stars
Cordelia Mirafiore has come to Willow House, the ancestral home of the McKennas, to attend the funeral of her beloved Aunt Philomena, a bestselling author. She had reconnected with her aunt a year ago, who had then welcomed her into the family and life with open arms. Her relatives, on the other hand, now look upon Cordelia with doubt and mistrust. Their suspicions only grow when they learn Phil has made Cordelia part owner of Willow House in her will, along with her two distant cousins. Will Cordelia be able to prove she is the long lost relative she has claimed to be? Or will she lose her chance of having a family?
When I requested this novel, I had no idea it was book three of a series. Ops! But still, I found this can be read as a standalone. The narrative does a good job explaining who’s who. Though I do think I would’ve had a better grasp of the family tree had I read the previous books, I wasn’t terribly confused. Just a little overwhelmed.
Cordelia read as a kindhearted, hardworking, and selfless woman, grieving her aunt. At the beginning, I could really feel her loneliness, how her longing for a family outweighed any thought of an inheritance. That made her really likeable and someone I could root for, despite her deception. I enjoyed her journey to discovering her ancestry alongside her, encountering the surprising secrets along the way.
At its heart, this story is about family ties, but there is also a romantic subplot woven into the plot. It’s a slowburn and very subtle, but also very sweet and cute. Declan O’Mahony, the journalist slash writer, swept me off my feet right alongside Cordelia. But his past history as a reporter, i.e. someone who digs up dirt on other people, made me worry whether or not Cordelia could trust him with her secrets. I wish we got to see more of their interactions as they were few and far in-between. I also wish I had known going into this novel that the romance will take a backseat, hence why I had to docked half a star from my rating.
I want to add that O’Leary does a wonderful job bringing Sunny Cove, Ireland to life. I could easily visualize the golden sunsets into the ocean, the quaint little shops on the street as if I were standing there with the characters. It made me long to visit the country myself one day.
Overall, this wasn’t what I expected going into the novel, but I did end up enjoying it. I would recommend if you’re interested in reading a book about family ties.

Please note: I received an advance digital copy of this book through NetGalley from Bookouture and Susanne O’Leary in exchange for a honest review. This does not influence my opinions in any way.

This is book #3 in the Sandy Cove series. It can be read as a standalone book, but I would recommend reading them in order. We return back to Ireland with Cordelia Mirafiore who is visiting Sandy Cove for a relative’s funeral and reading of the Will. Cordelia has flown over from Florida and is immediately taken with the rugged landscapes of the Irish coast. She meets her cousins, Maeve and Roisin who, if you have read the previous books, are already known. With the reading of the Will, can Cordelia convince her long-lost family of her inheritance?

I’ve read the two previous books and it was welcoming to be back in Sandy Cove. Cordelia is a new character who has flown in from America for a family funeral. I warmed to her from the beginning and as the story moves on you begin to find out more about Cordelia’s background and her longing to be part of a family. Whilst I’ve liked Maeve and Roisin’s characters in the previous books, I did find them less friendly initially in this book, particularly when first meeting Cordelia and them assuming she was only there for any inheritance.

This was a romantic, heart-warming read complete with a little bit of mystery and intrigue. The characters were all so well portrayed that you can’t help but be pulled into their stories almost immediately. Cordelia was a lovely main character and there was so much more to her story other than being there for a funeral. I really took Cordelia’s story to heart and hoped that she had her happy ever after, in all aspects of her life. This was a captivating story with an amazing backdrop of the Irish coast, which imprinted wonderful images into your mind as you read it. Would definitely recommend!

Dreams of Willow House by Susanne O’Leary is the third book in the contemporary romance Sandy Cove series. Each book of the series has changed the main character who has come to Sandy Cove so they can be understood as a standalone. However, those that follow from the beginning will notice the previous leads are now secondary characters so you will get updates on what has happened to them since their story was told.

In the first book of the series Maeve McKenna had come to visit her elderly aunt for a little vacation from her hectic job and instead found herself staying in Sandy Cove after finding love. In the second book Maeve was joined by her sister Roisin after Maeve’s aunt had left for America. Roisin had pitched in with restoring Willow House while working out her marital problems.

Now, Cordelia Mirafiore finds herself headed to Sandy Cove under sad circumstances. Cordelia was an only child raised by her single mother and after her mother passed she was left without any family at all. When Cordelia saw Maeve and Roisin aunt being interviewed and talking of her own roots some things seemed to fit Cordelia’s mother so she contacted her wondering if they were family. Soon the two became close despite having evidence of Cordelia’s true family roots and when she passed Cordelia travels to Sandy Cove for the funeral only to find she’s in the will.

Following the Sandy Cove series from the beginning I was immediately sad to find we’d lost Aunt Philomena. Continuing onward though I couldn’t help but become intrigued with the family drama and how things would work out with Cordelia whether she was family or not. Along with all of the family intrigue there is a romance also involved eventually so when it’s all wrapped together it’s definitely a page turner.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

When we last left Sandy Cove, sisters Maeve and Roisin were tucking into the rehab work on Willow House, while Philomena was off in the US working on book tours with her publisher after taking over the romance series from her late husband. While in the states, Phil mentioned that a family member had left for America many years earlier, and no one knew of what happened to them. A plea was sent out over the airwaves for information regarding this family member, and the very lonely and now grieving for her mother Cordelia took a chance. Knowing only that her mother had left Ireland and refused to say more, she met with Phil and was instantly absorbed into the family, even as she herself was thinking her connection to Phil was little more than hopeful.

But when Phil died and Cordelia heads to Ireland for the service along with Phil’s publisher, things get even more tangled – from finding herself with an equal bequest from Phil with both Roisin and Maeve, to having to produce a proof of her identity, and the not surprising bit of resentment from Phil’s daughter in law and mother of Roisin and Maeve. Thinking that she can find some answers back in the states, and planning to forego the bequest, Cordelia starts to investigate and make some surprising discoveries.

I loved how both Roisin and Maeve showed their shock and surprise, yet were willing to give Cordelia a chance as her inheritance was Phil’s last wish. And Cordelia’s willingness to pitch in when everyone turns up ill – working the guesthouse portion of Willow House, helping to inventory Phil’s many possessions as well as doing some digging of her own into her mother’s story made it feel both plausible and possible. And the women all start to develop a closeness, perhaps masterminded by Phil, seemed to grow organically as they became friends and realized that there was something ‘surreal’ about their connection, if yet undefined. The story carries all of the readability of the earlier titles in the series, allowing readers to experience Willow House through it’s many improvements as the stories of all the characters comes full circle. A lovely and slow-developing family history that takes the time to introduce the characters, flaws and all, wraps up nicely in this book.

I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.

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Dreams of Willow House is another phenomenal novel from Susanne O’Leary. This fast-paced novel grabs your attention at page one and keeps it all the way to the end. This page turner will have you flying through the pages. I highly recommend this book and I assure you that you won’t be disappointed. I look forward to more books from this author.

I am unsure why but this just doesn’t don’t click with me, maybe because the main characters behaviour seemed at odds, erratic and undecided as if the author couldn’t decide how she wanted her to be, I struggled to keep reading on this. Not for me sorry.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

Dreams of Willow House by Susanne O'Leary is the 3rd book in the Sandy Cove series and another beautiful addition. Cordelia Mirafiore who lives in Florida, learns she has inherited from a long lost relative. As soon as Cordelia arrives in Ireland, she finally feels at home. Dealing with some nice, and some not so nice relatives, and having to prove who she is. This book is utterly delightful in every sense of the word. Be prepared to be swept up in this story and these characters. I am ready to go to Sandy Cove, Ireland for a visit myself. I highly recommend this book/series.

I reviewed a digital arc provided by NetGalley and the publisher. Thank you.

I really enjoyed this endearing story of Cordelia and her unexpected journey to a family and a home she never knew she had or needed. Cordelia was all alone after her mother passed and she was left feeling isolated and bereft. Until an unexpected discovery of what could possibly be her mother's long lost family. Phil becomes a friend to her, family really. Until she dies and Cordelias secret might just alienate her from the family she has just met. The trip to Ireland for Phils funeral may just change everything for her again, when the mystery of her mother takes an even more unexpected turn. It's intriguing and lovely, and having only read this one I did not feel at all like it needed to be read with the previous stories. It held its own! Great characters and descriptions, with breathtaking Ireland and it's many charms to compliment the story and it's heroine. A wonderful tale I finished in a day and would recommend to anyone who loves some intrigue with their romance and women's fiction.

Having read the previous 2 books in the series, I wondered if this would be the same kind of story. But this blew me away. There was mystery and intrigue, lost family and relationships, and hints of a new love.

Cordelia was at the Willow House at the funeral of Aunt Phil. Will read by the lawyer made her the part owner of the House. But there was a secret. She had not told the truth about herself and her relatives to Phil. So was she the real cousin?

My third book by author Susanne O'Leary, was a sweet read about family, relationships with a mystery. I loved the flow of the prose more than the earlier books. I didn't remember the other characters so this book worked well as a standalone. Backdrop of Ireland added to the richness of the story, gave it a heartwarming feel.

Susanne was brilliant in evoking my emotions, and this book somehow brought out a special zing to it. Cordelia's longing for a family more than an inheritance could be clearly felt. Amidst doubt and suspicion cast by other family members, she shone with her genuineness.

Families written were complex, and it was nice to see Cordeliawas dealing with each one of them as well as standing up for herself. Overall, a fun read, I would say.

I loved this story of Cordelia and her relationship to Phil. Mauve and Roisin. This was a surprise for all of them the lengths Cordelia went through to find her real father and how she got. See how things went with all of this by reading this book. The whole series is great I highly recommend it.

Honestly this book was a little messy to me. Cordelia's lying story coupled with her strange attitude was just ... off.
I'm not sure why she was droning on about having had no real relationships then she jumps into bed with the first guy she meets in Ireland. Just odd behavior.

Maeve and Roisin were both very rude to Cordelia even when they were purporting to be nice to her. They were both evil stepsisters here if you ask me even going so far as to treat Cordelia like Cinderella washing up at the guest house, making pancakes, cleaning etc.

I'd like a moratorium on describing odd fashion choices in cosy romances. I don't need to know that Sally was wearing a sparkly sweater and bootcut trousers with dangly earrings, if anything this just dates Sally to me and describes her as a fashion disaster. Same goes for Cordelia fawning over herself when putting on a camisole, get over it. It's just an outfit, and a lame one at that.

The setting was nice here but the story and characters did not work for me. I got progressively more annoyed the more Cordelia kept telling people she was from Morristown, New Jersey. Just say America or New Jersey.