The Magnolia Landing Supper Club

Second Helpings at Magnolia Landing

At forty-one, Whitney Caldwell has buried a husband, raised a son, and is one bad month from losing everything she built.

Her catering business is barely hanging on out of her riverside kitchen, her son is off at college, and the house has gotten so quiet she talks to the oven. So when an invitation arrives for a new supper club, four women and one long table, she almost throws it away.

Then the old oyster house next door gets a new owner.

Remy Thibodeaux is a divorced Louisiana chef with a booming laugh, strong opinions about roux, and a grand reopening planned for the same weekend as Whitney's biggest job of the year. He's competition. He's loud. And he keeps showing up at her back door with a pot of something that smells like heaven.

Around the supper club table, Whitney finds friends who make her laugh again. In a kitchen too small for two cooks, she finds something she thought she'd buried for good. And tucked inside an old cookbook, she finds a faded recipe card signed Your Secret Valentine.

A clean, heartwarming story of food, friendship and a second helping of love.

Biscuits & Kisses at Magnolia Landing

Lacey Goforth takes care of the whole town. Nobody has thought to take care of her in years.

At forty-three, the county's night-shift 911 dispatcher lives on vending-machine crackers, cold coffee, and the steady hum of being needed. Her husband walked out after twenty years. The supper club is the only night of the week she sits down to a real meal.

Clint Bodie is the last man she expected to see at that table, though she'd know that voice off the radio anywhere. The widowed sheriff's deputy is six-foot-four of gentle, raising twelve-year-old twins on frozen pizza and good intentions, and he's joined the club for one reason: he cannot make a biscuit to save his life.

Somebody has to teach him. Somebody patient.

Lacey is not patient. But between flour-dusted Tuesday nights, two mischievous boys, and a big man who notices when she hasn't eaten, she starts to wonder what it might feel like to let someone carry her for a change.

Meanwhile, the Secret Valentine's recipe cards keep turning up, and someone in Magnolia Landing knows exactly who wrote them.

A clean, heartwarming slow-burn romance about caring for the caretaker.

Roses at Magnolia Landing

Twenty years ago, Paige Ellery broke his heart. Now he's standing in her flower shop, two weeks before Valentine's Day.

At forty, Paige has the prettiest shop on the river, a calendar booked solid, and a rule about never looking back. Then Brett Sumner walks in. Her college sweetheart is home from Charlotte to care for his mother, whose memory is slipping a little more each day, and he needs flowers for the one thing his mama still remembers: the roses in her old garden.

Paige has her reasons for leaving him all those years ago. She's never told anyone what they were. Not even the women around the supper club table.

As she and Brett coax that tangled garden back to life, the old feelings come back faster than the roses. Forgiving the past might be the easy part. Risking her heart on a future is something else entirely.

A clean, heartwarming second-chance romance about first love, family and forgiveness.

Valentines at Magnolia Landing

She just lost her job to a younger face. He thinks Valentine's Day is a racket. This should be easy.

At forty-four, Meredith Vance was Atlanta's favorite evening news anchor, until the station decided it wanted somebody fresher. Now she's hiding out in her late grandmother's river cottage, fielding pitying calls and pretending she's fine. The supper club women don't believe a word of it.

Dale Pritchard, the widowed owner of the hardware store, doesn't believe in much of anything that comes in a heart-shaped box. He believes in good tools, plain talk, and minding his own business. Meredith is none of the three.

But when the town's Valentine's festival needs saving and the Secret Valentine's last recipe card leads the club to the answer they've been chasing all winter, the skeptic and the anchorwoman find themselves on the same side.

She came home to hide. She might just find the life she was meant for.

A clean, heartwarming opposites-attract romance about second acts and finding your way home.