The Last Sweet Taste: A Novel

"I seem tough, but I'm waiting for the one who can see right through me. I get a little shaky thinking about this possibility," Anna Burke says. After receiving a serious health diagnosis, Anna isn't going to take it lying down. Instead, she sets out in search of something sweet and solid, an undeniable truth she can hold on to as she runs away from her home in the city, landing in a small town in Vermont.

There, Anna meets Noah and Cyrus Wolfe, a father-and-son duo of dynamiters hired to de...