Lauren Keller flipped a page in her cookbook, wishing she had half the skills necessary to make the desserts in this volume. She’d stuck her famous lemon bar recipe in the front of it, and once those had gone into the oven, the shiny, beautiful pictures of pies, brownies, and soufflés had lured her into the pages of this book.
A timer went off, and Lauren left the book open to a double chocolate cheesecake brownie while she turned to get her offering for tonight’s dinner out of the oven. She should be down the hall in her office, getting some work done for a client who needed to see specs for their marketing materials once the New Year began.
But she and Blake had decided to both take a full two weeks off for the Christmas holidays. That was what Tommy, Blake’s son, had off from school,
