Tea Shop on Lavender Lane

Bailey Sterling has spent years working toward a career as a caterer to the stars in Los Angeles. Then a faked food poisoning incident wrecks it. Her face turns up in the gossip magazines, and her business is finished.

Her family steps in and brings her home to Icicle Falls, where she moves in with her sister Cecily. The two get along well until Bailey settles on a fresh plan: a tea shop on Lavender Lane, a charming street in town. Her business partner will be Todd Black.

Todd is also the man Cecily has started dating. Cecily watches the two of them set up shop together and suspects something other than tea is brewing. She does not like it.

The picture is further tangled by Luke Goodman, a widower raising a young daughter. Cecily cares about him, yet Todd is the one who sets her pulse racing. She has to work out what she feels, and what she owes her sister.

This is a light small-town women's fiction and romance novel, centered on sisterhood and a love triangle. The tone is warm and humorous, with a family at its center and a sisters' rivalry over a man as the main source of tension.