An irresistibly delicious novel about the power of loveโฆ and dessert.
Like other well-meaning mothers, Julie Muellerโs believed she did the right thing when she secretly ended her teenage daughterโs 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 โ divorced and raising a teenage daughter alone โ is a workaholic obsessed with her career. And Michael, the one man who could make her happy, is the one man to whom she wonโt 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.
โSweet love, renew thy force; be it not said thy edge should blunter be than appetite,โ Shakespeare once pleadedโthough 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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