The Summer Kitchen, book #32

 

Lisa Wingate is always a toss up, she goes DEEP and often sad, and sometimes I regret starting one of her books.  As was the case of this one, but I had been home for over a week on a covid-cation and I already plowed through two books.  I had a hard copy of this one I got from my mom and decided to pick up.  Let's just say that last night I was up for WAAAAY too late on the edge of my seat wondering how it was going to end. :)

With her adopted son missing and the rest of her family increasingly estranged, SandraKaye Darden is drawn to the little pink house where her Uncle Poppy once provided security. But what begins for Sandra as a simple painting project to help sell the house becomes a secret venture that starts to change everything...Cass Blue is having trouble keeping food on the table since her mother died. When Sandra shows up with sandwiches for the neighborhood kids one day, Cass has no way of knowing that the meeting will lead to the creation of a place of refuge that could reunite a divided community.  In this moving story of second chances, two unlikely allies realize their ability to make a difference...and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul. (picture and description at Amazon)

Of course, after I finished I realized it was book 2 in a series, but the nice thing about her series is that while they are related by a very thin thread, you can literally pick up any book in the series at any time and you don't feel out of the loop.

Keep reading!

O:)

Melissa