From the bestselling author of See Jane Date and The Secret of Joy comes a charming, warm-hearted story about a womanтАЩs search for happiness after inheriting her grandmotherтАЩs cooking school.
When Holly Maguire inherits тАЬCamillaтАЩs Cucinotta,тАЭ her late grandmotherтАЩs home-based Italian cooking school in Blue Crab Island, Maine, twelve of the sixteen students for the upcoming fall class drop out. After all, Holly isnтАЩt a seventy-five-year-old Milanese love goddess, whose secret sauces had aphrodisiac properties and whose kitchen table fortune-telling often came true. Holly, a broken-hearted thirty-year-old whoтАЩs never found her niche, can barely cook at all. But sheтАЩs determined to keep her beloved grandmotherтАЩs legacy alive. Armed with CamillaтАЩs hand-scrawled recipe book, Holly welcomes her students: apprentice Mia, a twelve-year-old desperate to learn to cook Italian to stop her divorced father from marrying his ditzy girlfriend; Juliet, HollyтАЩs childhood friend grieving for her newbornтАФand the marriage she left behind on the mainland; Simon, struggling to be an every-other-weekend dad to his young son after his wife left him; and Tamara, a single thirty-something yearning for love.
Mixing fervent wishes and bittersweet memories with simmering sauces and delectable Italian dishes, Holly and the students of The Love GoddessтАЩ Cooking School create their own recipes for happiness and become masters of their own fortunes.