A Winter in New York

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the loveΓÇöand lifeΓÇöshe’s been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December When Iris decides to move to New York and restart her culinary career,she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really isΓÇöall the nostalgicNew York-set movies she’d watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe ice cream didn’t quite do it justice. And after spending the last few years in a relationship with a man who kept her world as small as possibleshe’s feeling a little overwhelmed by it all. But BobbyIris’s best friendisn’t about to let her hide away. He convinces her to come with him to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy. As they walk around enjoying all the food and life the neighborhood has to offera little family-run gelato shop catches her eyeΓÇöit’s the same shop that’s in an old photo of her mother’s. When Iris returns the next day out of curiosityshe meets the handsome Gio and learns that the shop is in danger of closing. His unclesole keeper of their secret family gelato recipeis in a coma so the family can’t make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batchshe realizes that their gelato recipe and her ice cream recipe are one and the same. But how can she tell them she knows itwhen she’s not sure why Gio’s uncle gave it to her mother in the first place? So Iris offers her services as a chef to help them recreate the recipe and begins to find herself falling for Gio and his family. But when Gio’s uncle finally wakes upall of the secrets Iris has been keeping threaten to ruin the new lifeΓÇöand new loveΓÇöshe’s been building all winter long.