The Blessings Series by Beverly Jenkins
Ongoing series, Book #10 published March 2020
This series, which follows the exploits of the residents of a historic black town in the midwest, is so easy to read that it is like the black equivalent of a Hallmark TV show (Chesapeake Shores comes to mind). There is a town on the brink of bankruptcy, a town savior with a bottomless purse, and a group of kids that need loving role models to turn their lives around. It is a gentle series that is more akin to women's fiction than romance and there is no sex on the page. Unlike Hallmark, Beverly Jenkins does not shy away from serious issues like abuse and broken homes. However, she doesn't linger on them long enough to warrant a content warning and the villains do get dealt with.
I don't know why it took me two years to get back to the series, but I sped right through books #2 through #9 in the space of a month (April 2019). I'm currently waiting in my library's queue for my chance to chance to check out book #10 because reading each book in this series is like visiting with old friends. This is definitely a series I plan on continuing, and I think it would be a solid choice for a buddy read with your mother or auntie.
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