Summer on Blossom Street

Lydia Goetz runs A Good Yarn, a knitting shop on a quiet Seattle street. She has survived cancer twice, and she opens a new class called Knit to Quit for anyone who wants to give up a habit, a worry or a person and begin again.

Three people sign up. Phoebe Rylander is getting over a broken engagement to a fiance who cheated on her. Alix Turner, a baker, has to stop smoking before she and her husband can try for a baby. Bryan Hutchinson, known as Hutch, runs his family's chocolate business, and he is trying to keep his stress in check while a lawsuit hangs over him.

Outside the classroom, Lydia and her husband Brad have taken in Casey, a twelve-year-old who keeps her guard up, while they wait to adopt an infant. Their friend Anne Marie has a different worry: the birth father of her adopted daughter has come back just as she meets a chance at new love.

This is the sixth book in the Blossom Street series, a contemporary women's fiction set among the shop's knitting circle. The separate storylines run side by side and meet around the shop's tables. The tone is warm and hopeful, and it makes room for grief, loss and second chances.