Homegrown Café Book Club

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them. Divorcée Tate Madison wasted fifteen years of her life with a liar and a cheat. Now she's returned to her hometown to open The Homegrown Café, find a sperm donor, and spend time with her family and new friends. Encouraged by her fellow middle-aged book-club buddies, she begs a favor from her younger brother's best friend-father the child her ex-husband denied her. Complications abound when she discovers she's attracted to the man who wasn't supposed to be more than an anonymous profile at the clinic. Pig farmer Jim Cochon knows all about in-vitro fertilization, but he'd rather do things the old-fashioned way with the irresistible redhead he's wanted to marry since he was five. Too bad she refuses his proposal the morning after their attempt to make a baby. He'll have to convince her second chances are worth taking when happily-ever-after is at stake.

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them. Organic farmer Riley Fenniman is happily single at forty-seven and refuses to acknowledge an attraction to her younger accountant, let alone surrender to it. Unfortunately, a legal catch in her farm's ownership and a health scare give her no choice in the matter. The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club have the perfect plan to ensure Riley's cousin can't get his greedy paws on her legacy, but it includes a husband and two pubescent girls. CPA Deacon Jeffries has carried a torch for his favorite client for over a year, but she would probably sooner light him with it than return his affection. She makes an offer he can't refuse to save her farm, one that makes his wish come true and gives his daughters the mother they need-except for lessons in dropping f-bombs. When the secret she's keeping reveals itself, he'll have to choose between self-preservation and love.

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them. After six broken engagements, butcher Petra Lochsley wants nothing to do with men and romance. Her hobbies include throwing axes, discussing books and having raunchy conversations with her middle-aged friends, and eating the occasional Boston cream doughnut-when the flirtatious baker doesn't insist she prostitute herself for the decadent pleasure. One game of tongue hockey is enough with the guy she used to babysit. So what if he's hot and is a good kisser? Baker Auggie Hofmeier didn't mean fall in love with or accidentally marry the butcher, but his heart seems to know what it's doing. Besides, his new wife invited him home for a wedding night and more, that is, until the conniving interference by The Candlestick Maker, the old man who owns the shop he and Pet both want to buy, threatens their happily-ever-after. What's a knave to do?

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them. Widow Wallis Danforth is looking for a little companionship now that her special needs daughter is becoming more independent. That's all. Nothing complicated. Unfortunately, dating apps have yielded nothing but jerks and perverts-so many that she's written a one-act play about her misadventures. But will she be able to resist the younger man who sweeps her off her feet and wants to play all the male roles in her production, including himself? History teacher Harry Kreiger never believed in love at first sight until he witnessed his Princess Charming putting her rude date firmly in his place-out the door of The Homegrown Café. Salsa lessons and starring opposite his heart's desire turns them from strangers to friends. But when friends become lovers, he'll have to pull out all the stops to convince Wally that love is more important than age.

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them. Marriage and children aren't in the cards for family law expert Georgina Swofford, but that didn't stop her from butting in just enough to ensure her friends from The Homegrown Café Book Club found happily-ever-after. Hers will have to be fake-with the man she almost bankrupted in divorce court five years ago. A pretend engagement to help him gain custody of his nephew will make them even, won't it? Hermit Oscar Banyan prefers solitude after the high-profile divorce that nearly cost him everything, including his freedom. But payback backfires when living together with his attorney for appearances' sake costs him more than his ponytail and shaggy beard. Playing house becomes a little too intimate to deny his feelings, and convincing her to stay will take more than sleepless nights of sharing a bed and parenthood.