Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning is excited to cater the wedding of her friend Delaine Dish’s niece Bettina. Despite Delaine being extremely high-strung, Bettina is a sweet young woman who has a blessedly calming effect on her aunt. She and her fiance Jamie Wilkes seem absolutely besotted with one another, and Theo is happy to…
Jasmine Littleton is pretty sure that if she doesn’t figure out a way to escape her life in Wisconsin, her boyfriend Glenn is going to kill her. He had seemed wonderful at first, showering her with affection and attention, but he’d slowly taken over her life, curtailing her independence and physically harming her when she…
At the end of this surprisingly deep interrogation of one woman’s adult life and how it’s skidded off the rails so far from where she’d once envisioned it, I burst into tears then contacted my childhood best friend to tell her that I love her. Like myself and B, Laura Phillips and her best friend…
Bakery owner Jules Capshaw is looking forward to taking a few days off from running her popular cafe, Torte, so that she can enjoy a long weekend at the Whaleshead Resort on the Oregon coast, where she spent so many joyful vacations as a child. This time, she’ll be accompanied by her chef husband Carlos…
May, Kelsey and Lauren have been friends for over two decades now, drifting in and out of touch before a series of personal scandals cemented their bond for good. While May and Kelsey have been best friends since they were kids, Lauren had been the head counselor at the music camp they’d attended each summer.…
Agnes Glin is perhaps at the lowest point in her life when she arrives in Iceland, the country her father and late grandfather emigrated from some forty years earlier. While she’s thrilled to finally be in the land of her ancestors, she also has misgivings. Her father Magnus, for one, strongly disapproves of the project…
The last thing that the still-grieving chef Paul Delamare wants to do is take on a gig teaching an introductory cooking course at the posh Chester Square Cookery School in the heart of London. But when his old friend Christian Wagner comes calling, Paul can’t say no, especially considering the cast on Christian’s arm. He’s…
Dawn and Wyatt Decker look like they have the perfect marriage to go along with their successful Tennessee-based home improvement reality TV show, The Perfect Home. Wyatt is the charismatic handyman with big ideas, whereas Dawn is the worrywart decorator constantly trying to rein him in. Their chemistry makes for excellent television and, until recently,…
Now that amateur sleuth Emily Westhill and her police detective sweetheart Brent Fine have settled into marital bliss, the only thing that concerns her about their union is the remoteness of the lakeside cabin he was living in before they got married. Though the couple tries to split their time evenly between his house and…
James Willoughby has always felt ill at ease being the third son of a modestly landed English family. While his father has tried to steer him into either the military or the Church, he only finds his passion when he’s exposed to medicine and science. This being the 1820s, the only real place for a…
