Joss loves books, coffee and traveling-especially to the wild places of Southern Africa and, well, anywhere. She''s a wife and a mom to two young adults. She''s also a servant to two cats and a dog the size of a small cow. After a career in local economic development and business, Joss writes full-time from her home in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Ryann didn't mean to runover the town's semi-feral Thanksgiving mascot-nor did she mean to ding the vintage truck belonging to Hayes Wellington, the town's most emotionally constipated (and infuriatingly hot) single dad. Now stuck in Halloween Town with no car, no job, and a turkey named Reggie in a homemade splint, free-spirited Ryann reluctantly agrees to help Hayes cook Thanksgiving dinner for his late wife's estranged family.

She's California chaos in sparkly boots; he's a vintage motorcycle restorer who barely speaks in full sentences. But in the week building up to Thanksgiving, parenting hacks go sideways, secrets start to thaw, and what begins as payback turns into a crash course in healing, home, and finding love where you least expect it.