Sweet Aroma
A heartwarming novel about a humble, mystery baker who makes it her mission to uplift those in her quaint hometown who are hurting, with the sweet aroma of her fresh-baked poundcakes.
Book Description
A smell, an aroma, is light at first, faint almost. You find yourself stopping to allow the invisible blanket to surround you, wrapping you in a sweet memory: the gentle but also powerful memory the aroma brings.
The aroma surrounds you, filling your soul and triggering a memory that brings comfort. Aromatherapy takes on a surprising, new meaning when Miss Jessie steps on the scene with her pound cakes!
It is her mission to listen, watch, and discover which aroma brings peace and comfort to the individuals in her small community who are experiencing sadness. She imagines wrapping them in a quilt of comfort with her pound cakes.
Knowing them intimately, Miss Jessie bakes the pound cakes with a distinct aroma which is specific to each hurting individual. She leaves the pound cakes on the porch, secretly hoping their hearts are touched. No one knows who brings these sweet delicacies… that brings joy to Miss Jessie’s soul.
At eighty-two years old she has learned to be quite humble as she secretly gifts the poundcakes and heads home! Mapleton, the small Minnesota town she had grown to love, was not void of town gossips. Irene was determined to find out who the humble, mystery baker was, asking “How can they have the audacity to just show up on someone’s doorstep with a cake?” Irene contacts Grant, a young reporter, shamelessly assigning him the task of searching out this person!
Little does Irene know that Grant is Miss Jessie’s next-door neighbor who is just as much in the dark as everyone else! Jessie sends Grant in all the wrong directions searching for the the pound cake caper in this humorous and heartwarming plot with twists and turns leading to an ending you couldn’t anticipate if you tried!
Each chapter brings a new family’s story of culinary aromatherapy, God’s Word, and a new pound cake recipe for readers to create their own sweet aroma!
Read an Excerpt
When Jessie Turner lost her husband of sixty-two years she had to make the move to Mapleton. She would soon come to love the community, but it took a neighbor bringing a pound cake to welcome her that put her on a secret path. She discovered how the aroma of the cinnamon in that pound cake soothed her heart. Melvin put cinnamon in his oatmeal every morning. The aroma that escaped when she cut the pound cake was like Melvin was sitting right there stirring his oatmeal.
As the aroma surrounded her it filled her soul and then triggered a memory that brought her back to where she was comforted by it.
Jesus lead Miss Jessie on this journey of discovering her beautiful talent, a passion really, of baking pound cakes. These pound cakes would show up on a doorstep of homes where grief, sadness, or loss were invading.
And the most exciting part was no one knew who, Mapleton affectionately named, the Pound Cake Caper was. At eighty-two Jessie Turner found new ways to sneak around town and deliver these memory restoring delicacies.
Oh and best of all! A pound cake recipe is in each chapter.
