Promising Penny

Penny Portman works in her parents' Auckland cafe and dreams of running her own cakery one day. When old friend Michael – her late brother's best friend – shows up out of the blue, her old feelings for him resurface, and she wonders if he will ever think of her as more than plain Penny – his honorary sister.
Michael has just had the year from hell – losing his best friend and riddled with guilt over the way he's neglected Penny, he's come out of that wilderness to get his life back on track – and most of all, to make it up to Penny for not being around. But he quickly discovers there's more to Pen than he ever realised.