The Bakery at Clamshell Bay Sara — Jane Bailey

Where the sea laps the coast at Clamshell Bay in the Pacific Northwest, four women become fast friends as they face love, loss and life's challenges.When they first meet in a baking class, the four are as different as salt, flour, yeast and water and yet when they combine the results are as strong and unbreakable as the best friendships.Cleo Duvall is a middle-aged baker who runs the Clamshell Bay Bakery and Café in the pretty tourist town where her cinnamon buns are Instagram famous. The coffee shop is the heart of the village on the Washington State coast where neighbors gossip over coffee and pastries. She also teaches as a way to share her love for the art and craft of baking. Cleo survived her no-good husband running out on her five years ago with a pretty young neighbor. She lived down the humiliation and is satisfied with a life so predictable she knows exactly how many loaves of French bread to bake on Thursdays. Then a man who looks familiar strolls into her café one day and upsets the balance of her carefully-ordered world.Brooke Mattson's modeling days are behind her, and now all she wants is to settle down and become a Mom, something that's turning out more difficult than walking the Milan runways in stilettos and a corset. From the outside, she and her super-successful husband have everything. But looks can be deceiving.Libby Brown has the life she always dreamed of. A happy home, two adorable kids and a husband who was happy for her to give up her nursing career to stay home. Maybe it's old-fashioned but she loves being a homemaker. However, there are faint rumblings that everything's not quite as perfect as it seems.Megan is the youngest. Aggressively single, she knows exactly what she wants and goes for it. So long as it's temporary. Whether that's a contract as a decorator and home renovator, or as a lover. She'll put her all into the project, but when it's over, she moves on. Is she a free spirit as she claims, or is there a reason she runs far and fast from commitment?As four women bond over bread dough, their will change forever.On the surface, life in Clamshell Bay is as calm as a sunny day in August, but anyone who's lived by the ocean knows that one good storm can change everything. There are buried secrets in Clamshell Bay and they are about to be dug up.Enjoy this heart-warming beach read about female friendship, second-chance romance, divorce and new beginnings.