Kate Landry Has a Plan

In this sweet if silly contemporary, Millet (Juliet Monroe Has a Plan) pairs a plucky New Orleans café owner with a former crush who’s recently moved back to town. Reeling from a breakup, 40-year-old Kate Landry spends her days raising her 13-year-old niece (whom she’s parented ever since her sister died more than 10 years ago) and running Beignets & Books, the café she dreams of expanding into the French Quarter. Though her plate is already full, when she bumps into childhood friend and new town librarian Micah Guidry, it reignites a spark rooted in their seventh-grade kiss. But lots has changed since then—Micah is divorced and Kate’s grown increasingly guarded after her own breakup. When construction at the library leads to one of its events being relocated to Kate’s café, the pair is thrown together and Kate must grapple with her romantic feelings, as well as mounting anxieties about her increasingly rebellious niece. Kate makes for an endearingly hopeful heroine as she flits between self-doubt and faith in search of a happy ending, even if the romance storyline can be a bit cringey (“You look guilty,” Micah says at one point—“Guilty of illegally crushing on you,” Kate thinks in reply). It's not perfect, but there’s enough here for a frothy good time. (Mar.)