The Café of Second Wishes

She came home to sell the café. Her grandmother left her a reason to stay.After the death of her grandmother Hedi, Mara Seidel returns to Lindenhain and inherits Café Seeblick, a beloved but struggling café on the shores of Lake Silbersee. There is only one condition: before Mara may sell it, she must reopen the café and run it for an entire summer.Her plan is simple serve coffee for two months, collect the inheritance, and return to her successful life in Cologne. But Lindenhain has not forgotten her. Neither has Jonas Winter, the first love she left behind twenty years ago. And Jonas's spirited daughter Lotta seems determined to make Mara part of their lives.Then wealthy developer Alexander von Tannenberg appears. Charming, attentive, and accustomed to getting exactly what he wants, he has plans for the café's valuable land and winning Mara's trust may be the easiest way to get it.Between hidden letters, old wounds, new hopes, and a town that refuses to let its café disappear, Mara begins to wonder whether the life she built is truly the life she wants. When Lotta goes missing during a violent storm, every carefully guarded feeling is put to the test.The Café of Second Wishes is a warm and emotional small-town romance about first love, found family, forgiveness, and the courage to stay when running away would be easier.