She rounded the corner in time to see a young girl picking up a utility knife and feeding Dolly a slice of the cheese Lucy had bought earlier today. The girl had a trim, lean frame, and she couldn’t have been more than twelve or thirteen. She wore jeans, a worn...
May 2, 1988 Cape Hudson, Virginia In coastal Virginia on a warm spring day, Mrs. Catherine Buchanan settles tired bones into her cane rocker. She carefully adjusts her green knit dress with gnarled but precise fingers. She is dressed for this occasion, but no amount...
I love apple pie in all it’s variations! This one uses Granny Smith apples.I like it so much I gave it to Megan in Winter Cottage. It’s love at first bite for Lucy and, possibly, the start of a new friendship–if Lucy stays, of course, which is...
I’m a huge fan of chocolate. Which makes me a lot like many of the people I know, including several major authors. Sometimes I wonder if my books would get written if not for the chocolate breaks I take along the way. I’m not the only fan of Lucy’s...
Jenna’s recipe box was found behind a wall during renovations in the Union Street Bakery. Her name was in the box, and it turns out she worked at the bakery in the 1940s. Her take on maple cookies is among the many recipes that live on live on, long past her...
