Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made… But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home – to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor and her mother works as his receptionist. With great humor and great tenderness, Heart in the Right Place shows that some of our biggest heroes are the ones living right beside us.
A baker in small-town Minnesota finds the heat is on after a musician is murdered… April is a busy time for Hannah Swensen and her bakery; the warm weather makes folks go wild for something sweet. When Hannah hears that the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band will be playing at the town Festival, she’s more than happy to bake up a generous supply of their namesake confections to welcome the band to town.
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
