The Sweetest Thing About You
He was the last man she expected. She was the last reason he'd ever stay.
Charlotte Montgomery thought she was getting engaged. Instead, she got passed over - for the rockstar Parisian pastry chef her almost-fiancé hired instead of promoting her. So she does the most impulsive thing she has ever done in her thirty-one perfectly-piped years. She buys a ticket to Maple Lake. Five minutes after she walks into the town square, she throws ten dollars into a stranger's coffee cup.
Only he isn't homeless. He's the contractor her aunt and uncle just hired to renovate the family bakery - one financial crisis away from closing for good.
Wes Donovan came home for two weeks. Long enough to meet his niece, settle a few things with the woodshop, and remember why he keeps choosing disaster sites in Florida over the Minnesota town he's been running from since he was eighteen.
Two plane tickets. Two weeks. And one Maple Lake bakery about to remind them both what home actually feels like.
From rising inspirational romance author Alyssa Schwarz, THE SWEETEST THING ABOUT YOU is the third novel in Falling for Flannel — Sunrise Publishing’s multi-author small-town romance series, set in Maple Lake, Minnesota. Perfect for readers of Becky Wade, Carla Laureano, Denise Hunter, Janine Rosche, and Susan May Warren.
Falling for Flannel — some stories are worth coming home for.
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Forced collaboration
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Mistaken-identity meet-cute
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City girl × hometown hero
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Family bakery on the brink
Tropes:
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Pastry chef × woodworker (sweetness meets craftsmanship)
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Slow-burn cozy fall faith-forward romance
Welcome to Maple Lake, Minnesota — where the maples turn gold, the flannel comes out of the cedar chest, and the second chances find their way home.
The Mercy of Cold
She lied her way into a family. He's sworn to protect them.
Left at a fire station at a week old, Maya Foster has spent thirty years wondering where she came from. One DNA test later, she has a half-brother, a town she's never heard of, and a single reckless plan: drive to Maple Lake just to look.
Then the Donovans mistake her for a job applicant—and she shakes hands on a position inside the family she came to claim. She'll tell them who she is. Eventually.
The complication has a badge. Deputy Sheriff Sawyer Matthews would protect the Donovans from anything. Even the woman at their table he's falling for—the one whose story doesn't quite add up.
And when both their secrets come loose at once, Sawyer has to choose between the family he's built and the truth she drove all this way to find.
She's spent thirty years wondering where she came from. He's holding the answer.
A small-town, found-family, protector-hero romance about the secrets we keep to protect the people we love — and the coldest moments that turn out to be the greatest mercies.
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Found family
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Adoptee searching for birth family
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A lie that keeps growing
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Two people keeping secrets
Tropes:
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Protective small-town sheriff
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Clean and closed door
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While You Were Sleeping vibes
