From Scratch

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mary Woods didn't get tenure.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She was smart accomplished and she failed - that's how she saw it at least. After wallowing in her feelings she dusted herself off and started looking for a plan b and she found it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sea Port was a tiny southern town on the verge of collapse looking to entice people to move to the middle of nowhere and start life anew.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mary was one of those people.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After her move to Sea Port - with her cat Cat-leen Cleaver in tow - Mary starts her life over in Sea Port as a small town baker. Mary has made it her mission to get to know as many town residents as possible and a few days before the opening of her new bakery Confections she meets Miguel Santos the town's new police officer and his good friend and fire chief Billy Knox. She'd just wanted to offer some sweet treats from her shop but their chemistry produces so much more.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Content Warnings</u></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mentions of self-harm</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mentions of police corruption</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mentions of domestic violence</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mention of sexual abuse</span></p>