Home At Last: A Chicory Inn Novel Book 5

Home At Last: A Chicory Inn Novel Book 5

<p>Link Whitman has settled into the role of bachelor without ever<br />intending to. Now he’s stuck in a dead-end job and, as the next Whitman<br />wedding fast approaches, he is the last one standing. The pressure from<br />his sisters’ efforts to play matchmaker is getting hard to bear as Link<br />pulls extra shifts at work, and helps his parents at the Chicory Inn.<br /><br /><br /><br />All her life, Shayla Michaels has felt as if she straddled two worlds.<br />Her mother's white family labeled her African American father with names<br />Shayla didn't repeat in polite––well, in any company. Her father’s<br />family disapproved as well, though they eventually embraced Shayla as<br />their own. After the death of her mother, and her brother Jerry’s<br />incarceration, life has left Shayla's father bitter, her niece, Portia,<br />an orphan, and Shayla responsible for them all. She knows God loves them<br />all, but why couldn't people accept each other for what was on the<br />inside? For their hearts?<br /><br /><br /><br />Everything changes one icy morning when a child runs into the street and<br />Link nearly hits her with his pickup. Soon he is falling in love with<br />the little girl’s aunt, Shayla, the beautiful woman who runs Coffee’s<br />On, the bakery in Langhorne. Can Shayla and Link overcome society’s view<br />of their differences and find true love? Is there hope of changing the<br />sometimes-ugly world around them into something better for them all?</p>