Much Ado About a Latte
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A coffee war is brewing in Maple Falls, where Anita and Tanner are serving up plenty of sparks to keep the town buzzing.
Anita Bedford needs to face reality. It’s time to decaffeinate the dream that she and Tanner will ever be more than friends. Growing up in small-town Maple Falls, she’s had a crush on Tanner for years. But he’ll only ever see her as good, old, dependable Anita. Now she’s finally ready to make her own goals a reality. In fact, that deserted building next door to Sunshine Diner looks like a promising location to open her own café . . .
Tanner Castillo may know how to operate a diner, but he doesn’t know beans about love. After pouring his life savings into buying the Sunshine Diner, he needs to keep his mind on making a success of it and supporting his widowed mother, not on kissing Anita Bedford. First order of business: improve his customers’ coffee experience. Next, he should probably find out who bought the building next door . . .
It’s a bitter cup to swallow when ambition turns longtime friends and coworkers Anita and Tanner into rivals. Now that they own competing businesses, how could they ever compete for each other’s hearts? Or will the two of them come to see what’s obvious to the whole, quirky town of Maple Falls: potential for a full-roast romance, with an extra splash of dream?
Welcome to Maple Falls, where everyone knows your name, your coffee order, and your relationship status.
Praise for Much Ado About a Latte:
“You’ve heard of friends to lovers; now get ready for childhood friends, to coworkers, to fake-dating coworkers, to business rivals, to lovers. Much Ado About a Latte has it all—charming and sweet, with delectable dialogue and just enough biting tension to keep you on the edge of your seat. Readers will love the beautiful setting of Maple Falls, the gratuitous food descriptions at Sunshine Diner, and Anita’s adorable cat, Peanut.” —Carolyn Brown, New York Times bestselling author
“Something’s brewing in Maple Falls and you’re going to be rooting for the romance every step of the way. Kathleen Fuller has created a wonderful small-town setting for this sweet reunion romance. How these two first-kiss kids ever kept their distance until now is beyond me! Just goes to show if true love is meant to be, there’s no escaping it.” —Nancy Naigle, ECPA bestselling author of The Shell Collector
Sweet contemporary romanceSecond book in the Maple Falls series, but can be read as a stand-aloneBook length: 77,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fuller returns to small-town Maple Falls, Ark., (after Hooked on You) for a chaste but spirited romance between old friends with clashing entrepreneurial goals. Tanner Castillo gave Anita Bedford her first kiss as a teenager, and she's loved him ever since. Ten years later, she's a waitress and he's the assistant manager at Sunshine diner. Tanner, too, was shaken by their kiss, but since his father's death when Tanner was eight, he's kept his focus on working to help provide for his mother and younger brother. When he achieves his dream of buying the diner, he's depending on promoting his favorite waitress to assistant manager—but Anita has her own dreams and buys the adjacent building to open a café, unwittingly threatening Tanner's plan to expand his services at the diner. They're both thrown for a loop and fuming; can their relationship survive the competition? True to small-town romance form, there are plenty of local busybodies and pushy moms to help the couple find their way, but the story fizzles as it comes to an end, short-changing the readers' glimpse into the happy ending. Still, the cozy atmosphere and spunky locals will leave readers eager to return to Maple Falls.
Customer Reviews
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Amazing book! Loved these series and I can’t wait till the rest of them comes out!