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Room For Eight: Not Strangers By Dessert
Paperback
Series: Room for Eight, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 684
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Raven Greer knows how to feed people.
As the owner of Raven's Table, she can turn grief into roast chicken, heartbreak into pasta, and a backyard into the kind of place where strangers lower their guard before dessert. But Raven is used to loving with her hands, not her words. If everyone has a plate, everyone is fine. That has always been enough.
Until Sage Whitfield, Raven's partner of ten years, turns one messy Saturday dinner into something bigger.
Room for Eight begins as an accident: one long outdoor table, no phones, four courses, and one question honest enough to ruin small talk. Soon, Raven and Sage are hosting monthly dinners where guests arrive as strangers and leave carrying pieces of each other's truth. Around the table are Nia, Sage's dramatic younger sister; Adrian, her sharp-tongued best friend; Raj, Raven's anxious logistics king; Frankie, the guarded barber down the street; Terrence, a widowed neighbor still carrying his wife's memory; and Alice, a bookstore owner quietly wondering if her own story is still unfolding.
But the more the room asks of others, the more it asks of Raven and Sage.
When Sage's ex resurfaces with a career-changing art opportunity, Raven is forced to face the fear beneath her control, and Sage must decide whether wanting more means risking the home they built together. As the dinners grow, so does the pressure from the neighborhood, the guests, and the truths no one meant to say out loud.
Full of soulful food, grown love, sharp humor, chosen family, and recipes worth saving, Room for Eight is a heartfelt novel about the tables we build, the secrets we bring to them, and the people who become family before the last bite.
Because at this table, the rule is simple:
No phones. No pretending.
And by dessert, no one leaves a stranger.
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