Review of Emma Jane's Guide to Matchmaking the Mayor by Drew Taylor

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Emma Jane's Guide to Matchmaking the Mayor is a fun contemporary twist on Jane Austen’s Emma. Drew Taylor adds her characteristic wit, small town charm, and faith for a fun poignant story.

Emma Jane is a barista searching for her purpose. She thinks she’s found it as a matchmaker, but her longtime family friend and widower, Knightley Austen disagrees. 


Knightley has his own worries with the mayoral race heating up and thinks he may lose the position which he already holds. Emma decides the solution is for him to be seen in a stable relationship, and as a matchmaker she has the perfect person.   When both begin questioning if romance is in their future, they start to see each other in a different light.


This book is a quick read packed with charm, relatable thoughtful emotions, and characters who are striving to honor God. I thoroughly enjoyed it!


Get Emma Jane's Guide to Matchmaking the Mayor here.


Book Synopsis


It’s all fun and games until lifelong family friends accidentally kiss…

Emma Jane Williams—town sweetheart and voted best barista for two years running—has her sights set on a new endeavor: matchmaking. It’s not like it’s hard, right? When the perfect opportunity arises to kickstart her own business, she drags that poor, unfortunate mayor-shaped opportunity kicking and screaming.

Knightley Austen vowed he’d never marry again. But his friend has her mind made up that he needs a woman by his side in order to win reelection as the town mayor. When the first date Emma Jane sends him on is successful, he must decide if she’s truly the woman he needs in his corner.

As schemes from both parties come to a head, will they choose their love of games or their deeply rooted, newly romantic love for one another?

Emma Jane’s Guide to Matchmaking the Mayor is a closed-door modern Emma reimagining full of faith, wit, banter, and bell pepper heat.


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