Fired by calendar invite on a Tuesday. On a one-way flight to Bali by the end of the month.
Kate Bennett did everything right. The degree her parents sacrificed for, the prestige job, the seventy-hour weeks, five years of canceled vacations for a company that erased her login before her exit meeting ended. At twenty-eight, the track she gave everything to simply ended. So at two o'clock one sleepless morning, she buys a ticket she can't explain to anyone, least of all her mother.
But Bali isn't the escape she planned. It's a dawn market that runs on trust, a warung owner who won't accept excuses, a talented young baker who's done waiting her turn, and a quietly stubborn local architect who notices everything and rescues no one. When Kate's hands remember what her resume made her forget, one borrowed oven at a time, she starts building the one thing she never put on a five-year plan: a life that's actually hers.
A warm, uplifting novel about starting over before thirty, the price of an impressive life, and the family you bake your way into. For readers who love found family, slow-burn love stories, and second chances that are really first ones.
