Family Stories

When life gets tough, your kin always come through.

The Recipe Box

by Viola Shipman

Becoming a New York City pastry chef is much harder than Sam expected, so when she quits her job, she returns to the comfort of her family’s Michigan orchard. Her love of cooking began with a box of recipes passed down through generations, but now Sam must decide what she truly wants for her future. Each chapter of this touching story centers on a recipe—and a slice of family history.

Little Broken Things

by Nicole Baart

Quinn receives a late-night text from her estranged sister, Nora, asking for a favor, and winds up caring for a young girl named Lucy, who she suspects is Nora's daughter. In this perfect blend of family drama and suspense, keeping Lucy safe, and secret, proves to be next to impossible.

Dreaming in Chocolate

by Susan Bishop Crispell Penelope and her mother, Sabina, run an unusual chocolate shop. Everything they sell is magical, made from recipes shared by an extraordinary apothecary table. When the magic fails to cure Penelope's ailing daughter, Ella, she shifts her focus toward fulfilling Ella's final wishes. But one item on Ella’s bucket list proves tricky: mending her mom's broken heart. To do that, Ella wants Noah, Penelope’s old flame, to be her dad.