Sugar & Storm (Sugarberry Island #2)

I could fix anything. My ex-husband would have told you so. So would the private-equity associates who’d cried in my conference rooms. You could hand me a struggling business, a spreadsheet, and ninety days, and I’d give you back a machine that ran without you.

So when I washed up on Sugarberry Island the summer after my divorce and found my oldest friend running a beloved, barely-solvent ice cream parlor on a shoebox and a prayer, I did the only thing I knew how to do with something I loved.I scaled it. Systems. A second location.A photogenic sundae engineered for an Instagram nobody on the island had ever opened.I was going to save that miracle whether it wanted saving or not.

The island had other opinions. So did the fourteen-foot leaning cone that refused to stand up straight, the boat captain who wanted absolutely nothing from me, the daughter who’d come south to find out whether her mother had gotten better or just found a bigger place to hide, and the best friend whose generosity turned out to carry a sixty-thousand-dollar secret.

And so, eventually — against everyone’s dignity — did a hurricane named after a sandwich.

By the time the storm cleared, I’d lost the thing I built, kept the thing I was given, and finally learned the difference between a wall and a thing you build to keep what you love.

Sugar & Storm is a humorous contemporary women’s fiction with a strong reinvention arc, found family, female friendship, small-town/community setting, and a light slow-burn romantic subplot.