The Wild Starter

1 · What's Inside?

Nestled in the quiet hills of the Hudson Valley, The Wild Starter is a heartfelt, slow-burning novel that follows Clara Chen as she trades her fast-paced city career for a crumbling farmhouse and a dream of baking bread. Through the gentle rhythms of seasons, sourdough, and soul-searching, this story unfolds with warmth and patience. Includes artisan baking moments, market life, tender romance, and one stubborn sourdough starter named Patience.

· 300+ pages of immersive, emotionally resonant fiction
· Rich themes of rural healing, food as transformation, and mindful living
· Includes a 12-month arc structured around baking and belonging

For readers who seek stillness in stories. For bakers, slow lifers, cottagecore dreamers, and anyone drawn to the sacred in the simple.

A balm for burnout. A meditation on failure and rising. A quiet companion to your own journey of change.

Mothers, daughters, artisan bread lovers, self-healers, new beginnings, cozy autumn nights, and anyone who finds comfort in the scent of rising dough.

...and let your story rise. The Wild Starter invites you to savor what grows slowly, and what mends gently - like bread, and like the human heart.