Nellie Farmer has always been the best source of gossip—and baked goods—in the town of Williams Trace, Texas. Plump as a dumpling, lonely as a heifer in a flock of sheep, and feeling bleak about her life and prospects, Nellie opens her second-best rent room to a handsome young stranger with mischief—and vengeance—on his mind. He's a charmer—and Nellie is ripe for the charming. But promises, so they say, are like piecrusts…easily broken.