A Second Chance Scottish Summer A Short Novel

An ambitious American restaurant consultant squares off against a stubborn, sexy Scottish chef over competing plans for her family's coastal Highland manor house in a deliciously surprising second chance summer¿ from the bestselling author of The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie. At thirty-two, restaurant liquidator Avery Hayes is an expert at shutting down dreams. Haunted by her failure to save her family's historic Scottish tea shop years ago, Avery is fiercely efficient at tying up loose ends and avoiding entanglements, both professional and personal. Despite the suitcase stuffed with swoony Highland romance novels hidden under her bed, Avery has no time for complications of the heart. And she is determined to avoid risk at all costs. Yet everything changes when Avery unexpectedly finds herself heading back to Oban, Scotland, the one place she swore never to return. Tasked with deciding the fate of her family's ancestral manor house, Avery is determined to sell the house quickly and leave Scotland for good. There's just one thing standing in her way - Chef Cameron MacKay.