By Bread Alone

Artisanal baker Esme Stack has left London, along with her husband and young son, for the country life of Suffolk. Between her prickly father-in-law and some dysfunctional livestock, she nurses a private grief—and finds a healing refuge in baking sumptuous bread.

This delicate balance is toppled with the shocking appearance of Louis, the sexy French baker who once upon a time taught Esme to make her signature sourdough...and then broke her heart into crumbs. By Bread Alone is "an aromatic ode to the carbohydrate and a poignant tale of loves and lives lost and regained" ( Booklist).