The Pumpkin Spice Shop: An Uplifting Cozy Small-Town Romance About Second Chances, New Beginnings, and Finding Home

She came home to sell her grandmother's failing bakery. She never expected to inherit half of it-or the man who came with the other half.Nora Whitfield spent eleven years building a life far from Cider Hollow. Returning to the tiny Vermont town after her grandmother's death was supposed to be temporary: settle the estate, sell the old bakery, and get back to Boston.Then she learns Ruth left the shop jointly to Nora and Sam Ballard-the quiet baker who has spent eighteen years keeping its ovens running and eleven years remembering exactly why Nora left.Neither can sell without the other.Worse, the bakery is drowning in debt. They have until the height of autumn to prove it can turn a profit or risk losing everything.So Nora and Sam make an uneasy bargain.She brings the instincts of a professional pastry chef. He carries eighteen years of recipes, routines, and memories that were never written down properly. Between predawn baking, battered recipe cards, cider donuts, harvest crowds, and a town determined to have opinions about both of them, their failing shop slowly begins to come alive.And so does something neither of them planned.But saving the bakery may be easier than deciding what happens when the deadline is over-and whether coming home can mean more than returning to the place you once left behind.Warm, atmospheric and deeply hopeful, The Pumpkin Spice Shop is a cozy small-town romance about starting over, found family, autumn traditions, and discovering that some doors never really close.