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Jenna has spent almost ten years as a sous-chef in a fashionable restaurant, and she is ready to leave it. Her marriage is over, and during it she backed her husband's ambitions so thoroughly that she has lost track of what she wants herself. Then she spots a for-lease sign close to her parents' home and pictures a cooking store of her own.

She has no business training, so she learns as she goes. Two people help her: a store manager with street smarts, and her adoptive mother. The shop begins to take shape and her new life with it.

Then her birth parents turn up. Serenity and Tom are aging hippies who want to reconnect with the daughter they had first. Jenna has to find a way to fit their free-spirited ways alongside the traditional parents who raised her.

Other pressures arrive at the same time. A new romantic interest complicates her feelings, and her ex-husband makes another outrageous request that she has to decide how to answer.

This is contemporary women's fiction with a family at its center and a light, warm tone. It follows a woman starting over in her own town, with the business, the romance and the two sets of parents all pulling on her at once.