
Callie Dixon had the world by the tail… until it all slipped away. Fired from her dream job after making a colossal mistake, she’s escaped to her aunt’s home on Cape Cod for time to bounce back. Except it isn’t a home, it’s an ice cream shop. And time isn’t going to help, because Callie’s bounce has up and left. There’s a reason she made that mistake at work, and she’s struggling to come to terms with it…

When Lillie Delaney’s life in the big city didn’t work out, she headed home to Gumption, Arkansas, longing for the peaceful predictability of the tiny town… Not to mention the proximity of the grandmother who’d raised her. Yet Lillie was in for a shock: her grandfather had taken off with a younger woman and her grandmother– running around in a pink shower cap– wasn’t handling it very well…

The hard-nosed newspaperman will only assign reporter Amanda Bodine fluff pieces about dog shows. She longs to prove herself with a serious front-page story… But then her own family becomes newsworthy…