A Recipe for Staying

Ten years ago, she left without saying goodbye. Now she has one year to decide if this is where she belongs.

When Maren Voss's grandmother dies, she leaves behind more than a beloved small-town bakery - she leaves a condition. Maren must run Voss Family Bakery herself for one full year, or lose it forever to the local historical society.

The only person willing to help fix up the crumbling building is Eli Kessler: the contractor who never left Birch Harbor, the best friend she abandoned without a word, and the man she's never quite stopped thinking about.

✦ Small town, big heart
✦ Second chance romance with a decade of history
✦ A lost family recipe worth rediscovering
✦ Sweet heat, guaranteed happy ending

As Maren rebuilds the bakery - and her grandmother's legacy - she has to decide whether staying means giving up her ambitions, or finally becoming who she was always meant to be. But an offer from her old life in Chicago forces her to choose, once and for all, between the career she fought for and the home she never stopped loving.

A Recipe for Staying is a heartwarming, low-heat second-chance romance about grief, legacy, and the courage it takes to choose an ordinary, extraordinary life on purpose.