Change Is Worse Than Revenge

Nora Haldane has carried a yellow legal pad for eleven years. On it is a four-item plan to ruin Victor Crane, the man who cost her father his bakery and, she believes, his life. When Victor, now dying, offers her the shuttered shop, she drives back to Brindle Falls with revenge on her mind.What she finds is a town that kept the lights on, a bakery that still smells like her childhood, and a truth about her father that her own paper trail never showed. As Nora fumbles her first loaves, her brother arrives wanting a lawsuit, her mother slips in and out of memory, and a developer sets his eyes on Main Street. She learns that revenge asks nothing of you. Change asks for everything.Change is Worse Than Revenge is a warm, wry novel about grief, pride, forgiveness, and the courage to begin again.