Nowhere but Home: A Novel
“Chef Queenie Wake has been fired again. When will she learn her way is not always the right way and that a patron wants to be served what he orders? Since her latest job in New York City came with a free hotel room, Queenie has nowhere to go – nowhere, but home. And home is North Star, Texas,...”
“Chef Queenie Wake has been fired again. When will she learn her way is not always the right way and that a patron wants to be served what he orders? Since her latest job in New York City came with a free hotel room, Queenie has nowhere to go – nowhere, but home. And home is North Star, Texas, somewhere she ran from 10 years earlier.
Queenie does go home to North Star, where her older sister, Merry Carole and Merry's son Cal live. Queenie is heartened to be reunited with her sister and nephew, but memories of her mother and her family's reputation in the small town surround her. And then there's the real reason she ran – rancher Everett Coburn.
Merry Carole owns a hair salon in North Star and Cal is the starting quarterback of the football team. But small town folk aren't ones to forget the past or to allow those they believe to be inferior to rise above them. How will they react to Cal as starting quarterback?
Queenie helps out at the hair salon and accepts a job cooking last meals for death row inmates. But is that enough to keep her in North Star?
I loved the characters in author Liza Palmer's "Nowhere but Home." Texas, big hair, football and family combine in this fun read. ”
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