Recipes found scrawled in the margins of other people's cookbooks

A woman reopens her grandfather's shuttered general store and the whole town, including one particular neighbor, shows up to help.

A year of letters, one time zone apart, written only after midnight when neither of them can sleep.

An orchard inherited by two estranged cousins turns out to need both of them to survive the harvest — and so does the old family feud.

A city landscaper is sent to revive a dying small-town garden and finds the town harder to leave than expected.

A florist keeps one rose from every wedding she's never had, until an old love walks back into the shop.

Two rival travel bloggers are assigned the same cross-country route and refuse to admit they're having more fun together.

Rival newspaper columnists are forced to co-write an advice column and start answering each other instead of the readers.

A fire inspector and the stubborn restaurant owner she keeps shutting down for code violations start meeting for reasons that aren't code violations.

A lamplighter in a town that switched to electricity decades ago keeps one street lit the old way, for reasons he won't explain.

A radio operator at a remote weather station falls for the voice on the other end of the only channel that still works.

A traveling carnival's paper-moon photo booth brings two former sweethearts face to face twenty years later.

A strict museum conservator and a street artist are paired on a restoration project neither of them wanted.

A traveling nurse who never stays anywhere longer than a contract keeps extending hers in one particular small town.

Two former dance partners, estranged for a decade, are reunited for one final performance at the ballroom that's closing for good.

A perfumer's apprentice falls for the one customer who keeps commissioning scents for a woman who doesn't exist.

A note folded into a library book in 1998 finally reaches the person it was written for.

A farmer and a seasonal market vendor build an entire relationship one harvest market at a time, four seasons a year.

A photographer who only shoots at dusk keeps finding the same stranger in every frame of a city she didn't mean to capture.

Two early-shift bakers share the only quiet hour of the day, long before the rest of the town is awake.

A missing chapter from her late grandmother's unpublished novel turns out to be a real love letter in disguise.

A piano tuner and a retired concert pianist rebuild a broken instrument, and something else, one key at a time.

Two childhood pen pals who lost touch as teenagers finally meet the adults they've only known on paper.

A record-shop owner finds a mixtape made for her in 2003, still unclaimed in the lost-and-found box, and tracks down who made it.

A failing small-town magician hires an unimpressed assistant who turns out to be the only trick that actually works on her.

A lighthouse keeper and a marine biologist share one week together every year when her research ship docks nearby.

A color-blind sign painter and the muralist who insists on describing every shade to him become each other's favorite color.

A bookstore owner reconnects with her first love when he becomes the only other person who still orders print books in town.

A tailor's apprentice and a nobleman's daughter trade secrets through the lining of a velvet coat.

Divorced co-authors are forced by their publisher to write the sequel to the romance novel they wrote during their marriage.

A planetarium guide and a traveling journalist keep crossing paths on opposite sides of the world, always under the same sky.