‘Mix in a single component Diane Mott ­Davidson’s delightful culinary escapades with several tablespoons of Jan Karon’s country living and quirky personas, bake at 350 degrees for just one affluent and warm romance.’ –Library Journal

A full-hearted novel in regards to a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home-and that sometimes the best things are located when you didn’t even understand you were searching

When Olivia Rawlings-pastry chef extraordinaire for a special Boston supper club-sets not just her about The City Baker’s Guidebook to Nation Living flambéed dessert however the entire building alight, she escapes towards the most comforting place she can believe of-the idyllic city of Guthrie, Vermont, house of Handbag Balm, the country’s longest-running contra dance, and her closest friend Hannah. But the getaway becomes something more lasting when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous, sweater-set-wearing owner from the Glucose Maple Inn, presents Livvy employment. Broke and understanding that her days at the golf club are numbered, Livvy allows.

Livvy goes with her larger-than-life, uberenthusiastic dog, Salty, into a sugarhouse in the inn’s house and begins creating her mouthwatering desserts for the citizens of Guthrie. She quickly uncovers the true reason she has been hired-to help Margaret reclaim the inn’s blue ribbon position in the annual county fair apple pie contest.

With the joys of a fragrant kitchen, the sound of banjos and fiddles being tuned inside a barn, as well as the crisp scent from the orchard just outside the entry way, Livvy soon finds herself immersed in little town life. And when she matches Martin McCracken, the Guthrie indigenous who has came back from Seattle to have a tendency his ailing father, Livvy comes to recognize that she may not be as by itself nowadays as she once believed.

But then another new appearance takes the city by surprise, and Livvy must decide whether to accomplish what she will greatest and flee-or stay and finally discover what it means to belong. Olivia Rawlings may finally find out that the life you want may not be the main one you expected-it could be even better.