One-Way Ticket to Bali: A Feel-Good Novel of Starting Over

Fired by calendar invite on a Tuesday. On a one-way flight to Bali by the end of the month.Kate Bennett did everything right. The degree her parents sacrificed for, the prestige job, the seventy-hour weeks, five years of canceled vacations for a company that erased her login before her exit meeting ended. At twenty-eight, the track she gave everything to simply ended. So at two o'clock one sleepless morning, she buys a ticket she can't explain to anyone, least of all her mother.But Bali isn't the escape she planned. It's a dawn market that runs on trust, a warung owner who won't accept excuses, a talented young baker who's done waiting her turn, and a quietly stubborn local architect who notices everything and rescues no one. When Kate's hands remember what her resume made her forget, one borrowed oven at a time, she starts building the one thing she never put on a five-year plan: a life that's actually hers.A warm, uplifting novel about starting over before thirty, the price of an impressive life, and the family you bake your way into. For readers who love found family, slow-burn love stories, and second chances that are really first ones.