The Recipes That Brought Her Home: A Sweet Bake-Along Romance

A story you can taste. A journey you can cook.When Penny Dunlop's life in New York collapses, she does the bravest thing she has done in years. She leaves.She takes a crooked stone cottage in the Lake District, hoping distance and silence will soften what she cannot yet face. But healing does not arrive through quiet reflection. It arrives through recipes.Her grandmother's Belgian biscuits are the first thing she can bring herself to make. Ginger crunch becomes the gift she carries to strangers who feel oddly like future friends. A banana cake, requested in a note written by a nine year old, opens the door to the friendship that saves her. And the room upstairs, the one still full of her late husband's things, waits quietly for the day she is strong enough to open it.As Penny bakes her way through her grief, a life starts to build itself around her. A widow down the road with two boys and a sewing machine. A village fete with a fiercely contested produce tent. And a quiet, steady farmer over the fields who turns up with a bucket when he smells smoke, and keeps turning up long after.But Joel McIntyre is hiding a name of his own. And before Penny can belong here, she has to let herself be known.Sometimes courage smells like something baking.The Recipes That Brought Her Home is a warm, slow burn, closed door romance about grief, gentle love and the quiet magic of beginning again. Fourteen real recipes are included, one at the end of each chapter, so you can bake along with Penny as she finds her way home.Book one in the Sweet Bake-Along Romance series.