A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to
the love--and life--she's been looking for in this stunning novel from
the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
When Iris decides to move to New York and restart her culinary career,
she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is--all
the nostalgic, New York-set movies she'd watched with her mom while
eating their special secret-recipe ice cream didn't quite do it justice.
And after spending the last few years in a relationship with a man who
kept her world as small as possible, she's feeling a little overwhelmed
by it all.
But Bobby, Iris's best friend, isn't about to let her hide away. He
convinces her to come with him to a famous autumn street fair in Little
Italy. As they walk around enjoying all the food and life the
neighborhood has to offer, a little family-run gelato shop catches her
eye--it's the same shop that's in an old photo of her mother's.
When Iris returns the next day out of curiosity, she meets the handsome
Gio and learns that the shop is in danger of closing. His uncle, sole
keeper of their secret family gelato recipe, is in a coma so the family
can't make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batch, she
realizes that their gelato recipe and her ice cream recipe are one
and the same. But how can she tell them she knows it, when she's not
sure why Gio's uncle gave it to her mother in the first place?
So Iris offers her services as a chef to help them recreate the recipe
and begins to find herself falling for Gio and his family. But when
Gio's uncle finally wakes up, all of the secrets Iris has been keeping
threaten to ruin the new life--and new love--she's been building all
winter long.
