Lara Ketter’s second novel, Wildcat Donuts, will be published in the Spring of 2025!
It’s 1993 in Manhattan, KS, and K-State’s football team is in the midst of an exciting and winning season. Cate Monroe is a 29-year-old reporter (soon to be 30 and freaking out) who works full-time at the Manhattan Mercury newspaper and part-time at her grandmother’s famous bakery, The Coconut Cream Cafe. Fed up with friends and family asking when she’s going to start dating again after a bad breakup, Cate decides to use the Law of Attraction to find a man – and it works! Three guys show interest in her romantically, and she’s overwhelmed. Then Ginny, her grandmother, has a stroke and Cate volunteers to run the bakery, but she soon discovers that the finances are a disaster; she desperately searches for a way to bring in revenue. Then her ex-fiance shows up and throws her for another loop. Poor Cate! What will she do?