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Rumors, Recipes, and the People Who Make a Place Home: Shady Grove Stories, Book One
Paperback
Series: Shady Grove Stories, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 16 2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Population: 4,182. Rumors: countless. Waffle House coffee: always hot.
Every story in Shady Grove starts somewhere else - but it always ends up at Booth Six, where Darlene Stuckey and her lifelong best friend Jolene have held court for thirty years. Between them, town philosopher Pete Walker, world-class exaggerator Carl, and a waitress named Denise who feeds everybody and misses nothing, this booth has heard it all.
But some stories take longer to tell than others. And as one small-town scandal after another gets sorted out - some tender, some hilarious, one that changes everything - Darlene starts to realize that the hardest rumor to face might be the one closest to home.
A love letter to small towns, chosen family, and the difference between gossip and truth, Rumors, Recipes, and the People Who Make a Place Home kicks off the Shady Grove Stories series - funny, heartfelt, and impossible to put down.
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