Turning her home into a cooking school for up-and-coming culinary students seems like the perfect way for successful chef Isabel Johnson to put the past behind her, but a war-torn journalist with a knack for making people talk is about to put Isabel to the ultimate test. With the Beekeeper's Ball and a wedding on the horizon, journalist Cormac O'Neill soon falls under the spell of a summer far more magical and revealing than he anticipated.

Baker Winnie Johnson does her best work when the heat is on. As owner of the Emergency Dessert Squad, she has a deft touch in the kitchen and a soft spot for lost causes. So when her business professor beau Jay Morgan expresses misgivings over having to fail one of his fourth-year students, Winnie cooks up a sweet solution. She'll offer an extra credit opportunity in exchange for a little help with her growing business. But when her protégé's first...

The Civil War has ended, but in Katie's Georgia home, conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her unstable husband, she flees north, finding sanctuary as the cook in a north woods lumber camp. Can she keep her past a secret from a man she is slowly growing to love?