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In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O'Neal explores the poignant, sometimes sophisticated relationships between moms and daughters - and the curing magic of homemade breads. Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a get better at of an art that has suffered her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at 15 and an limitless family feud. However now Ramona's bakery threatens to crumble around her. Basically. She's one water-heater catastrophe away from sacrificing her grandmother's rambling Victorian and everything she's worked so hard to build. When Ramona's soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her girl, Sophia, races abroad to be at his part, departing Ramona as the only real appropriate guardian for Sophia's 13-year-old stepdaughter, Katie. Heartbroken, Katie feels that she's being dumped again - this time around on the doorstep of a woman out of practice with mothering. Ramona calls upon a special group of tools - endurance, persistence, and the dependability of an good menu - when rebellious Katie happens. So that as she relives her own background of difficult choices, Ramona stocks her love of baking with the troubled girl. Slowly but surely, Katie begins to find self-acceptance and a destination to call home. So when a man from her past returns to provide a second chance at love, Ramona discovers that even the best menu tastes better when you add time, attention, and a few secret ingredients of your own.