Thanks to Hera Books and Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for a review.

This seems to be the second book set in the beautiful Highland village of Port Willow. I'm sorry I haven't read the first one but it made no difference to my enjoyment of the book. Nina, demoted from her job and her life in New York arrives looking for the next "big thing" in order to regain favour with her bosses. Will she find it or will she find something more important?

Loved it!

A small town by the sea in the midst of Socttish Highlands, this story was fabulous with its busy bodies and something on the go at every moment. The matchmaking was done subtley in a warm, friendly atmosphere. The story sure felt like a comforting hug of a fast friend. The handsome, hardworking, sensitive Scotts were an added bonus.

Be prepared to be drawn into the magic of Port Willow at Christmas.
Beatrice manager of the Inn, is a kind and intuitive host, helping all of her visitors grow as they stay with her and adds in the bit of matchmaking for good measure.
However, despite it’s real light and feel good buts, this book also touches on some really serious themes such as work problems, loneliness and baby loss.
It very sensitively explores the thoughts and feelings attached to pregnancy after baby loss. It really highlights that sometimes it isn’t always about celebration and rainbow babies but brings to the forefront dealing with those feelings of fear. This really makes Bea seem all that much more real, I really felt like she could have just stepped out of the pages.
The setting of the beautiful Scottish Highlands and the welcoming inn, alongside these themes made this a heart wrenching but delightful read!
I finished truly wishing for a full on Scottish Christmas with all the wonderful traditions and meanings behind them.
Thank you to Netgalley, Kelly Dunbar and Hera books, I really loved this!

Can I just say, I was so excited to be heading back to Port Willow, with Kiley Dunbar!
I've been a huge fan of Dunbar's stories over the last couple of years and was thrilled that I was able to read the next book about The Princess and Pea Inn, and its lost soul inhabitants and guests.
It was a joy to be back with Atholl and Beatrice, Gene and Kitty, and to meet all the newer characters that made the story so great to read.
Beatrice and Atholl have settled into their life at the Inn, with plenty of exciting new projects to get their teeth into. They have a couple coming to stay, who are to celebrate their twenty-fifth Anniversary, during their month-long stay, and a young woman from New York, coming to find some new trends around the Highlands that she can tout to her company back home, as the next 'big thing'.
Each of these characters has stories of their own that bring about the 'Matchmaking' part of the book's title.
I don't want to go into too much detail, and give things away, but, despite being a book two in a series, it is easily readable as a stand-alone.
There are trigger warnings with regards to miscarriage, but it has been health with sensitively, and as I mentioned before, I've read the first book, so was aware of this side of the story. Also, hats off to the author for bringing menopause into the equation.
Also, it is lovely to have a cast of characters who aren't all young, beautiful people, looking for love and finding it, but those more advanced in their years, with a history behind them, and, yes, still finding it!
A heart-warming story with the capacity for more to happen... hint, hint!
Many thanks to NetGalley and Hera Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest opinion.

Loved reading about port willow and all the brilliant characters, the description was Fantastic and loved the storyline, a heartfelt easy read that makes you want to keep reading on, wonderful community spirit and everyone there for each other, can't wait to read more from port willow
Highly recommend

I adored this second book in the Port Willow series! Although, it can totally be read as a stand-alone. A book about finding yourself and love in a small community. Lovely characters and a sweet story that touches in harder themes like miscarriage in a very sensitive manner.

Matchmaking at Port Willow by Kiley Dunbar is the second book in her Port Willow Bay series, however, it can easily be read as a stand-alone book. It is a heartwarming, and sweet story with a load of quirky characters in a small-town setting.

Nina works in a glamorous company in New York City called MicroTrend, a company that seeks new luxury products to sell to the rich and famous who are always looking for the next new thing. Her boyfriend, Luke, took her under his wing when she was an intern with the company and he engineered her rise in the company due to his rich and famous friends and contacts. Just before Christmas, Nina is called into the CEO’s office and is demoted and sent to the Scottish Highlands to find new and exciting new products. She’s sure the demotion is due to her boyfriend, Luke, finding a new girlfriend while on a business trip to Tokyo and dumping her via a letter given to her by his assistant.

Nina ends up in Port Willow at the Princess and the Pea Inn, run by Beatrice and Atholl. At the Inn, she meets Murray or Mutt as the locals call him, a decorator, working with Beatrice and Atholl to spruce up the Inn. Nina wants to find something amazing to bring back to her company and prove that she can do her job without Luke’s help and his social contacts, and is not interested in staying in Port Willow any longer than she has to.

I loved the small village of Port Willow and its quirky inhabitants. Beatrice and Atholl are so endearing and adorable, and their love story continues in this second book in this series. The Inn is vividly described as well as the surrounding village and the willow fields. I also enjoyed the lonely empty-nester couple, Ruth and Mark as Beatrice helps them to overcome their fractured marriage. Nina is a lot more difficult to relate to. Her ambition to succeed led her to a disastrous relationship with Luke and it was difficult for me to sympathize with her, even when Luke dumped her in a very cowardly way. She’s abrupt and single-minded in her search for the next great product, and she doesn’t have any empathy or interest in the townspeople. She does eventually redeem herself, although it was later in the story and almost too late for me.

I recommend this book to lovers of small-town romance and heartwarming stories. I received a complimentary copy of this book. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Having enjoyed the first book in this series and the nice balance of serious themes and romance I was looking forward to heading back to Port Willow. And whilst those themes continue and are unquestionably tackled well, sadly this didn’t reach the same heights. I simply found the romance between Mutt and Nina underdeveloped and lacking in spark and connection, but it was lovely to catch up with Beatrice and Atholl and see their relationship go from strength to strength.

It was wonderful to be back in Port Willow again and seeing Beatrice and Atholl’s love blossoming. I loved all the inter woven plots, Nina and Mutt were great together, each hurting and guarded yet still being drawn to each other and wanting to help the other be their best person.

The issues discussed in this book, again were hard hitting and it was refreshing to see real life situations and dilemmas being addressed, and even if these issues haven’t affected the reader directly, they are so sympathetically written that it is easy to empathise. I loved how Beatrice wanted everyone to be in love and happy, how she was prepared to go above and beyond to ensure love won.

I really hope we get to visit Port Willow again and see this lovely family flourish.

This book is a delightful way to spend a few hours just daydreaming and drifting away. I started reading it intending to just catch a couple of chapters but before I knew it four hours had disappeared. This is one of those books you don’t want to end because it’s such a beautiful way to spend time. Buy this book as soon as it comes out and you will be transported to a little oasis of calm and romance. I can’t wait for the next book in the series.

I loved this book! It's the second in the series but can easily be read as a stand-alone (although I'm immediately going to buy the first one b/c I enjoyed this one so much).

The author calls this book her "sweet and sentimental story about love after loss". Trigger warning for miscarriage. It was handled very gently but I still want to give people a heads up about it.

Loved the menopause rep in this book!!!!

Usually in an ensemble book there's a set of characters that I don't care about but in this book I loved them all.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Hera Books through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Thank you, Hera Books!

Another wonderful and heartwarming book from Kiley Dunbar. I haven’t read the first book in this series, but that doesn’t detract from the story at all as the characters are well written and believable (having said that, I will be buying the first book as I absolutely fell in love with Port Willow and it’s gorgeous residents!) . It is a story of heartbreak, running away, new beginnings, life and love after children have left home and village life. Simply wonderful.
There is mention of miscarriage in this book, if this is an issue for you. However, the thread of the story I was particularly pleased to read was Ruth and her struggle with the menopause, something you rarely read about in a novel, let alone anywhere else, and I thought that Kiley did a great job of describing how it can feel to be menopausal, feeling overlooked, unloved, unimportant and invisible as well as the well know hot flushes and those ‘rages!’
Highly recommended. I hope we will be treated to another visit to Port Willow - I’m sure Gene has a story to be told (just saying Kiley 😉……)

Nice setting in the Highlands among a sweet community.

Beatrice and Atholl are very cute while there was no chemistry between Nina and Mutt, for me. Ruth and Mark have been together for 20+ years and routine has damaged their relationship, but their journey at the Princess and the Pea Inn while be the trigger to put it back on track.

Overall a sweet novel but more a contemporary fiction than a romance really.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing an eARC in exchange of an honest review.

Loved being back in Port Willow with some familiar characters. Beatrice was annoying as usual, I find it hard to believe that she is so well liked by the others. The parts of the story without her in were really good though.

It was lovely being back in the village of Port Willow and reading about familiar characters. Beatrice is quite annoying in this book but apart from that it was a lovely story to read.

A story of match making, realisation and reawakening. Port Willow a village by the sea in Scotland people seem to run away to Port Willow, Nina gets sent there by her New York company after a break up with her boss. Sad and dejected she searches for the next big thing but instead finds out what is really important in life. Keeps you interested throughout with a crafting feeling.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. What a nice lovely story this was and with a great location and characters, I really enjoyed it.

This is the first Kiley Dunbar book I’ve read and whilst it does seem to continue on from a previous novel I didn’t have any problems with missing background although I think if you’re considering this I’d look at reading the previous one first just to avoid spoilers. It’s a very character led book with loved up Beatrice honing in on a few hotel guests that she feels would benefit from some gentle meddling both to start a relationship and to relight one. I liked that the issues of miscarriage and menopause were both well covered although overall this is still a warm and lighthearted read.

A book about finding both yourself and love in a small Highland community. Good characters and a sweet overall story. Touches in harder themes like miscarriage in a careful way.

I received an advance copy of, Matchmaking at Port Willow, by Kiley Dunbar. I love Kiley Dunbar books, and this is a good one, set in a great location. This Scottish Village has great characters, that you will love, like I did.