Gathering Clouds by Sandra S. Kerns

Dreams and desires are different for everyone. They can be simple or complicated. Sometimes life has been so hard we forget what it means to dream about anything. Who has time for desires with all it takes to just keep our heads above water? Such is the case for Gabrielle and Theo. Two people with such different outlooks on life and people it's amazing they even meet. But sometimes our dreams make us do desperate things.Gabrielle can't let her restaurant close after fifty years of uninterrupted service. She is desperate. Her head chef is walking out and she needs a new one to stay open. If she loses the Silver Lining it would kill her. She needs someone willing to start immediately, but all the talented chefs already have jobs. A friend recommends a man just released from the prison where she works. Word was he planned to return to Colorado. Can she put her dream in the hands of an ex-con?Theo returned to his hometown in hopes he had been forgotten. His only desire is to get work...