The Feasting Virgin

Like a sublime spanakopita, Xeni's outer layer appears perfectly golden delicious, but underneath she is a jumble of emotions, bitter like wild greens and salty as creamy feta. Xeni knows the right ingredients to make any Greek dish delectable, but the one recipe she yearns for and can't perfect is how to make a baby. But not just any baby, Xeni desperately wants God to bless her with a virgin birth. Callie is determined to give her son, Manny the stable loving home she never had, and she's willing to learn every Greek recipe in existence if that's what it will take to please the father's very orthodox mother. But when she shows up at the grocery store to buy ingredients to make Spanakopita, she realizes just how little she knows. Xeni's resolve to stay pure of thought is tested from the first moment she sees Callie in the produce aisle, with her cerulean blue eyes and plump juicy baby. Xeni finds herself unfurling where she was once tightly bound, finding unexpected pleasure in...