Grace Kitchen

One Harvest Knight Grace Kitchen

Shell Prentiss lives in a world of petals and pretties, marred only by the pain of a long-ago loss. The single sour spot in her little Harvest dreamworld is the newsman, Thorne Knight, who makes no effort to hide his inexplicable dislike of her. As a fourth-generation owner/editor of The Harvest Herald, Thorne usually makes a point of personally welcoming new merchants to the close-knit business community. So why hasn't he extended that same courtesy to the owner of Shell's Petals 'N Pretties? He has yet to dole out a smile in her direction-much less a warm welcome. When Shell says things are disappearing from her shop, Thorne goes on the defensive. Harvest Square hasn't seen a theft worth speaking of in over a decade. He'd known the fancy little florist was too pretty to be good news. Now she'll have all the merchants in an uproar of suspicion and panic. When their volunteer nights begin to overlap at Grace Kitchen-a unique soup kitchen just off the square-Thorne and Shell are forced to work together in some semblance of accord. Through their shared concern for a mysterious child, each begins to see good things in the other. He's scarred from the past. She's hurting from an old loss. Between God and the twin sisters who own Grace Kitchen, might love be in the picture for two fiercely private, painfully haunted hearts?