Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.

Longing for a family of her own, Miriam Zehr is thrilled when the man she has pined for all her life seeks her out until she realizes that he wants her help in getting her neighbor Mary Kathryn Hershberger to notice him.

When Fly Guy is not allowed in the restaurant with Buzz's family he follows his nose and ends up in the soup.

"Fannie Flagg meets Elin Hilderbrand in this deliciously charming debut novel about fried chicken, family feuds, and the foibles of the human heart"--

Thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia cafe manager Cornelia Brown, who harbors romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace.

"A coffee war is brewing in Maple Falls, where Anita and Tanner are serving up plenty of steam to keep the town buzzing"-- Tanner Castillo's place behind the counter at the Sunshine Diner is a fixture in the small town of Maple Falls, Arkansas. After years of saving every penny, he has purchased the diner and make the necessary renovations to bring it into the 21st century. Anita Bedford has always been happy to work as a waitress at the diner, especially...

Nowadays Siobhán O'Sullivan, along with her five siblings, runs the family bistro named for their mother. Its been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but its about to get rougher. One morning, as they're opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O'Sullivans, and their business in danger of being shunned, its up to feisty redheaded...

"The Bad Guys have entered a whole new world--like, literally--a VERY nasty new universe awaits. Oh, Mr. Snake, what have you done ...?"--Provided by publisher "A mysterious doorway! (Sure, it's the grossest restaurant in the world, but that doesn't make it any less mysterious, OK?) BEHOLD! What lies beyond it?! An Evil Centipede? An alternate universe? A few decent explanations? VRRRING! NING! NING! HEY! Was that a chain saw?! Let's see if...

Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...