An irresistibly delicious novel about the power of
love… and dessert.
Like other well-meaning
mothers, Julie Mueller’s believed she did the right thing
when she secretly ended her teenage daughter’s crush on
Michael Slayton, a wild older neighborhood
heartthrob with a penchant for Shakespeare and the
pedigree of trailer trash.
Twenty years later,
Betty Mueller has come to realize that was a big mistake.
Her daughter Julie – divorced and raising a teenage
daughter alone – is a workaholic obsessed with her career.
And Michael, the one man who could make her happy, is the
one man to whom she won’t speak.
Now dying and
determined to make amends, Betty stages her last great
feat of motherhood by reuniting the couple in a dessert
class where she hopes the sweetness of a chocolate almond
Torta Caprese will erase the bitterness of a
wretched misunderstanding.
“Sweet love, renew thy
force; be it not said thy edge should blunter be than
appetite,” Shakespeare once pleaded—though it will require
more than poetry and passion fruit for Julie and Michael
to renew their love.
It will, in fact, require
the sweetest sacrifice of all.
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