The Mother's Day Tea

Jonah Walters used to have the perfect life, but he ruined it with his self-centered ways. Brooklyn Lee once had big dreams, but an unexpected heartbreak made those dreams impossible. Now all Jonah and Brooklyn can do is lead lives of lowered expectations. After all, what's the use of getting your hopes up when there's no chance of your dreams coming true?

The nosy pastor's wife, Maureen, is determined that Family Chapel's annual Mother's Day Tea will be better than ever this year. She's also determined that her nephew Jonah and little "Brookie" Lee will start to dream again.

With a bit of Maureen's charm and meddling, she manages to convince both Brooklyn and Jonah to help her with the upcoming tea. Will Jonah forgive himself for his past mistakes? Will Brooklyn allow God to heal her heart from her terrible loss? Will Brooklyn and Jonah open their hearts to a new dream the Lord has for them?

©2024 Martha Fouts (P)2025 Martha Fouts

Beautiful Story!

This book was wonderful! Such a sweet, heartfelt, cute, funny story, with some heartwarming and breaking moments.

Both Brooklyn (FMC) and Jonah(the MMC) have hurt in their past and things to work through. And together they help one another heal, and get closer to God. Their relationship was so sweet and cute, and I loved them so much! I think I had a smile on my face half the time I was listening to it 🤭

Jonah is also a dad of an adorable little girl, Ava, and their relationship is amazing, and when Ava gets to know Brooklyn she loves her immediately!

The story is pretty fast paced, but the love story is not, it spands a few months during the book, but I love how she wrote it. She had some of their meetings they had were told to us as replaying the memories in their minds, or talking about a phone call they had. I felt it was fun and different to do it that way!

God was woven throughout this story, in themes of healing, forgiveness, finding your back to Him, and love.
And there is many loveable side characters including a meddling pastor's wife, who is bubbly and caring, she pushes these two together and it totally worked! I loved her character as well as all the rest who played a part in the story. Such a beautiful story!

The Narrator was also amazing, she does an amazing job of bringing the characters to life in your mind! And even giving a distinction between which characters are talking. So good! The emotions she inflects is perfect, if their laughing you can tell, if their sad you can tell. There's even a part in this book that a character sang a little song, and instead of just reading it, she sang it exactly how I imagine the character would've, full of joy!

great story

The Mother’s Day Tea is the third book I have read, written by Martha Fouts, and I look forward to reading more. This was such a great book; it does not have to be read only around Mother’s Day, but it was a joy to read coming up to the celebration of the day.
I was able to enjoy the audiobook, read by Lisa Lynn Sandlin, and she did such a great job. I cannot get enough of her audiobooks. Her voice just brings the characters to life and makes it so enjoyable.

The character development was so good. I loved getting to know Brooklyn and seeing her struggle with all that Mother’s Day brings. It was a great reminder that the celebration of mothers can also be a hard day for some. Jonah has his own hurdles he must overcome. As he is working on co-parenting with his ex-wife while she is moving on. Jonah must overcome these obstacles and seek God in the process.

The storyline was great and very hallmark. I loved the meddling aunt, the baker/caterer meets firefighter- single dad, it made for a great story. The pastor’s wife, Maureen, plays matchmaker and asks Brooklyn and Jonah to work on a silent auction for the Mother’s Day Tea at church. Oh course, nothing is that simple.

The relationship between Brooklyn and Jonah was a sweet, low-spice romance. I loved watching them fall in love and seeing them both open up their hearts and pasts.

Martha Fouts did a fantastic job intertwining faith throughout the book. I was encouraged.

*I received a complimentary copy from the author and voluntarily chose to review it. All opinions are my own.

This book was so heartwarming and sweet!

This book was so heartwarming and sweet! Jonah, Brooklyn, Ava, and Aunt Maureen were all absolutely precious. I loved the storyline and how Martha's books never portray perfect people,each character finds their hope and faith in Jesus, and that's such a beautiful thing to see. I listened to this one on audio, and Lisa Lynn Sandlin truly breathed warmth and personality into every character, making the story even more special.

Sweet, funny, and Christ centered

Jonah Walters is a divorced dad with an adorable daughter. Brooklyn Lee is a young business owner who fears she’ll never experience the life of her dreams. They both have settled for less and operate as if they aren’t worthy. The meddling pastor’s wife, who’s also Jonah’s aunt, has other plans. She brings them together to plan the perfect Mother’s Day Tea for her church. But it’s hard to matchmake when one’s stuck in their ways and the other doesn’t think anyone could love her.

What a great story! Martha captures every detail in such a way that you feel like you’re truly watching everything unfold. Brooklyn’s backstory was sad but yet hopeful. It made you want to hug her and assure her that everything would work out. Jonah seemed to dwell on his past and seemed a little stuck. It took him a while to finally start moving forward. I loved Brooklyn’s unassuming way to help him do just that.

The narration was excellent, with the character voices being unique and consistent throughout. The emotions rang through, but not in such an overpowering way that you couldn’t put yourself in the story.

Overall, this was a sweet, sometimes laugh out loud, read full of Jesus and second chances.

I received a copy of the audiobook from the narrator. All opinions are my own.

Delightful

The author captures your Interest from the first sentence. Her writing style is enjoyable and her word pictures shine.

Narrator Lisa Lynn, gives the story life with her ease of narration, relaxed tone & descriptive sense.