Gouda Friends

Tam Doan has lost her job, her apartment and her fiancé in the space of a week. With nowhere to go, she takes up her oldest friend Josh Doyle on an open-ended offer and moves back to Ponto Beach, California, sleeping on the couch of the man she has known since high school.

Josh has problems of his own. He is trying to keep a failing sandwich shop afloat and has never quite outgrown the reputation he earned as a teenager. Cooking together, arguing over recipes and leaning on the same tight circle of friends they grew up with, the two of them slowly rebuild — and the line between friendship and something else starts to blur.

Gouda Friends is the second book in Cathy Yardley's Ponto Beach Reunion series, a warm, food-filled friends-to-lovers romantic comedy about starting over in your thirties among the people who knew you first.