Yerba Buena

Sara Foster left home as a teenager and built a new life in Los Angeles, becoming a bartender whose inventive drinks conceal how little she reveals about herself. Emilie Dubois is searching for direction when she takes a job arranging flowers at the restaurant Yerba Buena. Their first meeting creates an immediate connection, but neither woman arrives without unfinished business. Family histories, previous relationships and the consequences of difficult choices repeatedly interfere with the possibility of being together. As Sara's past returns and Emilie begins to understand what she wants, attraction must contend with the work of making a life. This novel follows two women seeking intimacy while learning whether the places they have escaped can ever stop defining home.