By Bread Alone

For Esme MacDougall Stack, it began in an old underground boulangerie in southwest France, where artisan-baker Louis Lapoine introduced the innocent nineteen-year-old to the arts of making bread and making love. And then he broke her heart. Fifteen years later, Esme is living by the English seaside with her family, still baking bread, but no longer the idealistic girl she once was. Then an unexpected encounter in a London restaurant sends her quiet life careening wildly off its axis - forcing her to come to terms with the past and a tragedy that robbed her family of the joy and completeness they once knew.