From the bestselling author of See Jane Date and The Secret of Joy
comes a charming, warm-hearted story about a woman's search for
happiness after inheriting her grandmother's cooking school.
When Holly Maguire inherits "Camilla's Cucinotta," her late
grandmother's home-based Italian cooking school in Blue Crab Island,
Maine, twelve of the sixteen students for the upcoming fall class drop
out. After all, Holly isn't a seventy-five-year-old Milanese love
goddess, whose secret sauces had aphrodisiac properties and whose
kitchen table fortune-telling often came true. Holly, a broken-hearted
thirty-year-old who's never found her niche, can barely cook at all. But
she's determined to keep her beloved grandmother's legacy alive. Armed
with Camilla's hand-scrawled recipe book, Holly welcomes her students:
apprentice Mia, a twelve-year-old desperate to learn to cook Italian to
stop her divorced father from marrying his ditzy girlfriend; Juliet,
Holly's childhood friend grieving for her newborn--and the marriage she
left behind on the mainland; Simon, struggling to be an
every-other-weekend dad to his young son after his wife left him; and
Tamara, a single thirty-something yearning for love.
Mixing fervent wishes and bittersweet memories with simmering sauces and
delectable Italian dishes, Holly and the students of The Love Goddess'
Cooking School create their own recipes for happiness and become
masters of their own fortunes.
