A Mother's Love #1

Send us Fan MailThe Magnolia's GiftAva runs a small flower shop on Main Street, arranging wedding bouquets while unpaid bills pile up. Her son Micah has just been accepted to Vanderbilt, and she has no idea how to pay for it. Then one autumn evening, her late mother's magnolia tree does something impossible. The next morning, a stranger walks into her shop with an extraordinary offer.The Secret RecipeIn the coldest winter Chicago has seen in decades, a widowed laundress sorts through abandoned sheets to find coins for milk. Instead, she finds a leather-worn cookbook with gold lettering. Its recipes call for ingredients like patience and faith alongside flour and salt. That night, with barely enough to dust a countertop, she follows the simplest recipe in the book.