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One particularly horrid winter day in Chicago, Lindsay Moon, PhD, quits her laboratory job to return to Pacific Grove, California, the town where she grew up. Weary of academia, she’s given up on love in general and men in particular. With Covid-19 looming, she’s desperate to see her beloved grandmother again and feel the sun on her face. But it’s a different world than she remembers, and as Covid shrinks her options, Lindsay agrees to step in to run her grandmother’s café, The Owl & Moon. There, she connects with her childhood best friend, Sally DeThomas, a renowned writer, but the same old horse-crazy, defiant Sally, and she’s still the most intriguing person Lindsay has even known. When new love comes her way, she is shocked and uncertain but realizes this could be something worth fighting for. After all, what is love but another chance to find happiness?
Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of thirteen novels, including prizewinning and Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters, Bad Girl Creek, Solomon’s Oak (ALA RUSA award), and Owen’s Daughter (2014 New Mexico-Arizona Best Novel of the Year award). For fifteen years, she taught fiction writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage in Creative Writing and Literary Arts, and helped create its low-residency writing program before retiring in 2018. She can be found on Facebook, chatting about her life, cooking, what she’s reading, and dogs. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in a pueblo-style house on the prairie with her husband, two Italian greyhounds, and a chiweenie named Nellie.