Promises to Keep, Nan Rossiter [feel good fiction books .txt] 📗

To all my family, friends, and fans, who faithfully buy, read, and enthusiastically spread the word about my books. It’s your support that makes it possible for me to follow my dreams.

To our noble, solemn black Lab, Finn, who I can always count on to make sure I don’t spend too much time sitting at my desk and get plenty of fresh air and exercise.

And to my heavenly Father above, who continues to bless me beyond measure!

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Maeve’s Chocolate Chess Pie

About the Author

Meet Nan Rossiter

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About the BookMaeve’s Chocolate Chess Pie

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

4 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder

1 5-oz. can evaporated milk

¼ cup softened butter

1 tsp. vanilla

2 beaten eggs

¾ cup chopped pecans (optional)

9-inch unbaked pie crust

Confectioner’s sugar, for dusting

Whipped cream, for serving

Directions

PREHEAT THE OVEN TO 325 DEGREES.

OVER MEDIUM HEAT, MIX TOGETHER THE FIRST FIVE ingredients until the chocolate is blended and smooth.

WHILE CONSTANTLY STIRRING THE EGGS IN A SEPARATE BOWL, slowly add ½ cup of the hot pie mixture. When blended, add the egg mixture into the pot, continuing to stir. It will thicken immediately.

BLEND IN THE PECANS (IF DESIRED) AND POUR INTO THE prepared pie shell.

PROTECT THE PIE CRUST WITH FOIL OR A METAL PIE CRUST shield, and bake for one hour or until set.

LET COOL FOR ANOTHER HOUR AND SPRINKLE LIGHTLY WITH confectioner’s sugar. Serve with whipped cream. Yum!

About the AuthorMeet Nan Rossiter

NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY bestselling author NAN ROSSITER loves to weave together stories about the complicated relationships to which all readers can relate—motherhood, sisterhood, friendship, marriage, and romance. She draws from her own life experiences to create authentic situations that mirror the trials and triumphs we all face. Compassionate, real, and funny, her books take readers on emotional journeys that often include heartbreak and joy, but also include threads of faith, a furry friend or two, and an uplifting ending. Nan’s books have been highly acclaimed by reviewers from Publishers Weekly to Booklist. Her novel Summer Dance was the 2018 winner of the Nancy Pearl Award.

Nan is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and began her writing career in the world of children’s books. Along with her many contemporary fiction novels, Nan is also the author/illustrator of several books for children, including Rugby & Rosie, winner of Nebraska’s Golden Sower Award, and The Fo’c’sle: Henry Beston’s “Outermost House.”

Nan lives on a quiet country road in Connecticut with her husband and a solemn black Lab named Finn, who diligently watches her every move and can be roused from a slumber in a distant room by the sound of a banana being peeled or a cookie crumb hitting the floor. Nan and her husband are the parents of two handsome sons who have struck out on life journeys of their own.

For more information, please visit www.nanrossiter.com, where you can sign up for her newsletter, or follow her on Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @NanRossiter.

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THE GIN & CHOWDER CLUB

Set against the beautiful backdrop of Cape Cod, The Gin & Chowder Club is an eloquent, tender story of friendship, longing, and the enduring power of love.

The friendship between the Coleman and Shepherd families is as old and comfortable as the neighboring houses they occupy each summer on Cape Cod. Samuel and Sarah Coleman love those warm months by the water, the evenings spent on their porch enjoying gin and tonics, good conversation, and homemade clam chowder. Here they’ve watched their sons, Isaac and Asa, grow into fine young men, and watched, too, as Nate Shepherd, aching with grief at the loss of his first wife, finally found love again with the much younger Noelle.

But beyond the surface of these idyllic gatherings, the growing attraction between Noelle and handsome, college-bound Asa threatens to upend everything. In spite of her guilt and misgivings, Noelle is drawn into a reckless secret affair with far-reaching consequences. And over the course of one bittersweet, unforgettable summer, Asa will learn more than he ever expected about love—the joys and heartaches it awakens in us, the lengths we’ll go to keep it, and the countless ways it can change our lives forever.

“Eloquent and surprising . . . I loved this story of faith, love, and the lasting bonds of family.”

—Ann Leary, author of The Good House

“Nostalgic and tender . . . summons the passion of first love, the pain of first loss, and the unbreakable bonds of family that help us survive both.”

—Marie Bostwick, New York Times bestselling author

WORDS GET IN THE WAY

From the author of The Gin & Chowder Club comes an exquisitely heartfelt and uplifting novel that explores the infinite reach of a mother’s love—and the gift of second chances.

The modest ranch house where Callie Wyeth grew up looks just as she remembers it—right down to the well-worn sheets in the linen closet. But in the years since Callie lived here, almost everything else has changed. Her father, once indomitable, is in poor health. And Callie is a single mother with a beautiful little boy, Henry, who has just been diagnosed with autism.

Returning to her family’s quiet New Hampshire community seems the best thing to do, for the sake of both her father and her son. Even if it means facing Linden Finch, the one she loved and left, for reasons she’s sure he’ll never forgive. Linden is stunned that Callie is back—and that she has a son. Yet in the warm, funny relationship that develops around Henry and Linden’s menagerie of rescued farm animals, Callie begins to find hope. Not just that her son might break through the wall of silence separating him from the world, but that she too can make a new start amid the places and people that have never left her heart . . .

“Rossiter’s second novel is an intimate