Book #1 Breakfast at the Honey Creek Café, Book #2 Picnic
in Someday Valley. Benjamin Monroe is pretty sure how his
life will play out. He'll continue teaching chemistry in his
small college and spend his free time biking through the
valley. Eventually, he'll retire to putter around in his garden
and greenhouse. His colleague, Virginia Clark, is not one for routines.
She's chatty, spontaneous, and bubbly, and before Benjamin realizes what
happened, she's talked him into collaborating on a research project--
studying the mating habits of college students. Ketch Kincaid, one of
Benjamin's star students, returned to college after serving in the army. He
needs something to get his mind off his recent breakup and collecting
research data might do it. And there's another distraction on the horizon--
a woman who looks like she, too, knows about heartache. Soon enough,
their project, "The Chemistry of Mating," is gaining notoriety. Friends,
neighbors the whole town has become involved. But no matter what the
data determines, one conclusion seems inescapable: love follows its own
rules.