When archival preservationist Nadia Caldwell arrives at the historic 1892 Cooperage Malt-House in Penn Yan, New York, she faces a strict November 4 deadline to locate an uncatalogued 1918 deed covenant. Setting up her mobile preservation bench in the drafty second-floor flour-loft, she immediately clashes with quiet head chef Reuben Holt after airborne stone-ground flour blankets her delicate workstation. Yet Reuben softens her professional wariness with warm hearth-baked caraway rye and roasted autumn squash before building a cedar partition to protect her fragile records. Sharing an integrated workspace, guarded friction gradually turns to genuine connection as Nadia sifts through water-damaged manifests, finding herself unexpectedly drawn to both the malt-house and the steadfast chef.
When archival preservationist Nadia Caldwell arrives at the historic 1892 Cooperage Malt-House in Penn Yan, New York, she faces a strict November 4 deadline to locate an uncatalogued 1918 deed covenant. Setting up her mobile preservation bench in the drafty second-floor flour-loft, she immediatel...