I am delighted to be welcoming Laura Briggs to the blog today, who is going to talk about her book, Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Café. Before I hand over to Laura, I just want to give you a little information about the book.
The Blurb
Professional pastry chef Blaire Reese is blindsided when her beloved Aunt Rachel dies, leaving her the Sugar and Spice Pastry Cafe in Willow Grove. Returning to her hometown, Blaire discovers her beloved family business is in trouble, and—to make things worse—its most-cherished recipe is missing.
Her first love and former summer crush, Evan Hadley, is also back in town, having traded a corporate career to help manage his family’s Heath Acre Farm, famous for its autumn Hay Daze corn maze. Grown up – and with rugged good looks – he’s only charming when he wants to be. Like when he's not tangling with someone over business matters, the way he is with Blaire after she cancels a large order for organic pumpkins.
Her sunshine is disappearing under his grumpy storm clouds, until he accidentally learns the truth about her situation. Now, he offers to help save her aunt's legacy and her family’s pastry cafe. As they work together in secret, the ingredients for a very different recipe develop— one simmering with romance—but an unexpected turn of events melts their growing attraction into a mess.
Will Blaire save the beloved cafe and find the lost recipe that means so much to the pastry café’s customers? And can she save this last chance at love with the first boy she ever kissed?
Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Café invites readers to dive into its cozy autumn escape this fall—for fans of grumpy x sunshine, small town romance, Gilmore Girls, pumpkin lattes, sugar and spice and everything else that's nice about this magical season!
This is the perfect new cozy-up-with-a-pumpkin-spice-latte read that’s meant for fans of Laurie Gilmore and Rebecca Raisin!
Thanks so much to Left on the Shelf for this chance to share with all their readers about my new small town romance read Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Café!
It seems like everyone is looking for their next favorite magical cozy autumn read these days. Books that make you want to snuggle up with a blanket and a cinnamon (or pumpkin!) spice latte are everywhere you look on social media, and frankly why not? We all love the escapist settings and seasonal charm that make you feel like you’ve been sucked into an episode of Gilmore Girls, where Luke’s diner has an endless supply of pancakes and coffee and the town square is always festooned in soft glowing lights and seasonal charm.
I definitely set out to capture a bit of that atmosphere for Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Café, where I got to explore my love for all things autumn as my heroine Blaire inherits her aunt’s adorable café in the town of Willow Grove. Of course, there are complications—including a missing family heirloom recipe that could make or break Blaire’s chances of keeping the beloved café afloat as customers begin to notice the absence of her aunt’s cherished signature dessert from the daily specials. Meanwhile, her childhood sweetheart Evan is also back in town, and the sparks fly when Blaire has to cancel an order of organic pumpkins from his family’s farm on short notice (grumpy x sunshine anyone?). Past misunderstandings and present conflicts threaten to keep them apart, but working together to find the missing key to duplicating Aunt Rachel’s beloved pumpkin pastries could find common ground in ways neither expected—and unlock feelings both of them assumed had been left in the long ago past.
If you’re thinking it sounds like something straight out of a Hallmark movie, well, you might be on to something, because I definitely did some TV binge watching as writing background for this one—in fact, you can see my Top Inspirations for writing Blaire and Evan’s story if you check out my latest Instagram reel at https://www.instagram.com/paperdollwrites/. A few might surprise you…others definitely won’t… but it’ll give you a feel for the kind of atmosphere the pages will whisk you off to if you choose to pick up a copy yourself. You can find it available in Kindle and Paperback via Amazon and eBook format from other major retailers. So, if you are missing your favorite pumpkin spice latte right now, or just need a feel-good escape to somewhere cozy and comforting, I hope you’ll make Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Café your next reading adventure!
Thank you so much for being my guest today. I cannot wait to read the book.
Book Details
ISBN: 979 8278149262
Publisher: Independently published
Formats: e-book and paperback
No. of Pages: 276 (paperback)
Purchase Links
About the Author
Laura Briggs is the author of several feel-good romance reads, including the Top 100 Amazon UK seller 'A Wedding in Cornwall'. She has a fondness for vintage style dresses (especially ones with polka dots), and reads everything from Jane Austen to modern day mysteries. When she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, caring for her pets, gardening, and seeing the occasional movie or play.
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(all opinions are my own)
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