4.5 and all the love in my heart.
There's something about a man down on his luck coming to a small town to find himself that just does it for me. Make him a single guardian over a surly teen as well? I'm done for.
Fisher Lange, the man you are.
Tarah took one of my favorite tropes and RAN with it and did a phenomenal job. Fisher is a successful chef who is down on himself after a series of failures. Enter his teenage niece that he's now in charge of, he's finding it hard to pull himself out of a loop of doom.
In effort to turn himself around, Fisher is sent by his former boss to Spunes to work on a new restaurant and himself. While there he meets Sage Byrd, a local who loves her town and the animals on her farm.
I loved Sage and Fisher so much. Even though this book has insta-attraction, I couldn't. find myself to be mad at it. Watching Sage give fisher and his niece tasks to keep their mind off things and show them there's more to small town life was a JOY. Watching Fisher and Sage fall in love was even better. Also the spice in this? Fisher knew what he was doing FOR SURE. Not to mention, Tarah 100% made me cry over a goose.
Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of an arc in exchange for an honest review.