My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island: Maude's Mooring - Carrie Fancett Pagels

I dabbled a bit into this "series" when I read My Heart Belongs in the Superstition Mountains: Carmela's Quandary back in 2017.  There are more books that have similar insane-length titles, but I didn't really have any desire to read them.  The books aren't connected by character cross-over, and they are all written by different authors.  They just have long titles and the same general cover.  It's...interesting.  I picked up the book because when I was a kid, we spent a week every summer in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and visiting Mackinac Island was a treat I always looked forward to.  Anyway, about the book...

Maude lives on Mackinac Island and wants to prove that she's capable enough to run the inn, but her father is keeping things from her.  In an attempt to prove that she's capable, she takes a job as a maid at the Grand Hotel.  She's not really cut out for that kind of work, so it's a bit of a disaster, and she's trying to keep away from Friedrich, a man who is stealing her wounded heart.

Friedrich/Ben isn't what he appears to be.  He's a reporter working under the alias of Friedrich to get a story.  A big promotion is promised if he delivers, but it's the kind of story that could destroy lives, and he's not sure he can do it.  He's also interested in pursuing Maude, but his lies could make that impossible.

This was a good book, and I liked it.  Nothing extraordinary plot-wise, but it was nice to read about the places I visited as a kid.  It was like riding a horse down memory lane (because cars aren't allowed on Mackinac Island).  Something I appreciated about this book is that the author didn't add a bunch of nonsense to make it longer and hit the 320 page mark that seems to be so common among this genre.  It's on the shorter side (at 258 pages), so it's a nice, light read.  4 stars.