Room at the Table

Some tables are built to hold more than a meal.

She has until December 1 to save her bakery. He's building the tables she has to fill.

Widow June Okafor has fed Hollow Creek through every funeral, frost night, and festival, but she has never let anyone feed her. Then her landlord's letter arrives: $45,000 down by December 1, or her bakery's building goes to a dollar-store chain. Four days later, an oven fire shuts Kettle & Crumb down.

Her lifeline is the Thanksgiving Long Table Supper and its first-ever catering contract, if she can get a licensed kitchen in time. Ben Adler, the careful, divorced shop teacher she's been quietly dating since summer, is building the tables. His kids, Lily and Sam, are slowly making room for her.

But when Lily asks for a seat at the table for her mother, June and Ben find themselves on opposite sides of what welcome really means. With the deadline closing in, June must learn to receive as freely as she gives, and Ben must trust God with what he can't control.

A clean, faith-filled second-chance romance about family, welcome, and receiving one another as Christ received us.

Seasons of Grace, Book 2