Second Chance at the Orchard Inn
Includes a Bonus Novella by Jeannie Chin
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Publisher Description
A charming second-chance romance about a big city chef whose return home to help run her family's wedding planning business means reuniting with the man who broke her heart.
Chef Aurora Shipley spent years slicing, dicing, and chopping her way up the ladder of L.A.'s competitive restaurant scene, but when her sisters needed her help, she dropped everything to return home to Texas. With her family’s Orchard Inn now on its feet, it's time for Aurora to head back to the big city. At least there, she won’t keep running into ex-boyfriend Jude Jones or her high school bully Erica, who now needs Aurora and her wedding planning business to throw the celebration of her dreams. Will Aurora let the past go long enough to send the bride off without a hitch and ignore her traitorous heart urging her to stay and try again with Jude?
As a teenager, Jude Jones foolishly listened to his father and let Aurora Shipley slip away. In the intervening years, the sweet, shy girl grew into a stunning, capable, confident woman, and her reappearance is messing with Jude's focus, which should be on expanding Jones' Family Herbs. He broke Aurora's heart once, and she broke his, too. This time will Jude be strong enough to fight for her—for them—and a future together?
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In McGovern's tender second Orchard Inn romance (after Something Blue), chef Aurora Shipley leaves her high-pressure restaurant job in L.A. to help her sisters get the family's Texas Hill Country Orchard Inn back on solid footing. While in town, she studiously avoids her first love Jude Jones, who broke her heart at the end of high school and stayed in Texas to run his family farm. After his sister forces a meetup at the farmer's market, however, the old lovers break the ice and Jude shares his dreams of opening a farm-to-table restaurant, something Aurora is uniquely qualified to advise him on. Unfortunately, his ailing, opinionated father firmly opposes Jude's innovative ideas, just like he opposed Jude's relationship with Aurora in high school. When Jude apologizes to Aurora for the way he broke things off, old wounds start to heal, and mutual affection and attraction make staying just friends challenging. Then Aurora is offered a chef job in Malibu and must reevaluate her priorities. Subplots about complicated parental relationships add depth to this predictable but satisfying tale. Fans of sweet small-town romance will be pleased. This edition includes the bonus novella "Only Home" by Jeannie Chin.
