A cupcake baker with magical abilities suddenly finds herself competing with the unfortunately handsome owner of the fancy new bakery across the street in Golden Heart® Winner Tara Sheets's magical romantic comedy releasing April 24th, 2018.
Don’t Call Me Cupcake by Tara SheetsGenre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Publisher: Zebra Shout – Kensington Publishing
Series: The Holloway Girls
Format: Digital eBook / Print
Digital ISBN: 1420146264
Print ISBN: 9781420146264
There’s a very special kind of sweetness to life on Pine Cove Island …
Most families have a favorite recipe or two, handed down through generations. The Holloway women are a little different. Emma Holloway, like her grandmother before her, bakes charms into her delicious cupcakes, granting the recipient comfort, sweet dreams, or any number of good things. It’s a strange gift, but it brings only happiness. Until gorgeous, smooth-talking newcomer Hunter Kane strolls into her shop, Fairy Cakes—and Emma makes the mistake of selling him not one, but three Sweet Success cupcakes.
Hunter, it turns out, is opening a fancy new restaurant and bakery right on the waterfront—Emma’s competition. To make matters worse, the town committee has decided to split the upcoming summer festival contract between the two, forcing Emma to work with her nemesis. But she can’t afford to split her profits. The solution: create a recipe that will make Hunter leave town permanently.
The Holloway charms are powerful. But there are other kinds of magic in the world—like red-hot first kisses, secret glances, and the feeling that comes with falling truly, madly, inconveniently in love . . .
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2018 Don’t Call Me Cupcake
Tara
Sheets
That half smile ghosted across his face again and he
crossed his arms. It was a simple gesture of relaxed ease, but Emma didn’t buy
it. There was a hunger in his dark green gaze that she remembered all too well.
The lion was on high alert.
“What did you want to talk about?” he asked.
“It was wrong,” she blurted.
Hunter’s posture shifted slightly. “You think last
night was a mistake.”
“Totally. I mean, I never do that kind of thing.
Ever. I don’t know what I was thinking, you know?” Here came the babble. She
always babbled when she was nervous. “But I know it’s not a good idea to mix my
personal life with business. And you and I are just business, so I hope you
understand it’s not going to happen again because, you know, I can’t really
believe it even happened in the first place.”
Hunter
nodded once and glanced down at the floor. He seemed deep in thought, as if he
was trying to make a decision.
Emma
tried not to notice his muscular arms, crossed against his chest. Nothing sexy about those. Nope. La la la.
She could hear the second hands ticking on the wall clock. Tick. Tick.
He
pressed his lips together and she suddenly remembered the feel of them, warm
and hot against the sensitive spot on her neck. Focus!
When
he finally lifted his head, her knees almost buckled. The lion stared back, all
wild and hungry and seductive, like he was about to lick zebra chops. He leaned
closer.
She
should probably back away.
He
watched her beneath thick, dark lashes and lowered his gaze to her mouth.
Yup.
Definitely backing away soon. She could almost feel the heat of his body on
hers and her traitorous limbs ached with the desire to step closer.
His
face hovered inches from hers, as if he was waiting for some sign.
Any
second now, she would back away. Any second. Emma’s mouth opened on a tiny
indrawn breath.
It
seemed to be exactly what he was waiting for. The moment his lips touched hers,
her limbs flooded with heat. Her body remembered him and was instantly ready.
He gripped her hips and lifted, pulling her
flush against him. She wrapped her legs around his waist, completely lost in
the kiss that spread like wildfire through her blood. He carried her to the
back room, knocking over a bag of sugar on the way as he braced her up against
the pantry wall. She gripped the edge of the shelf, sending stainless steel
mixing bowls toppling to the floor. The two of them were like a hurricane,
demolishing anything that got in the way, and she was helpless to do anything
but hang on.
Emma
suddenly wanted to feel his skin against hers. She grabbed the hem of his shirt
and yanked it up, breaking away from their kiss just long enough to tear it
over his head.
A low
growl escaped him as he ran his hands up under her apron, sending a jolt of pure
desire rocketing through her.
Screwed. She was so screwed. But in this moment,
who cared?
She
smiled against his mouth and licked his lips. If he was the hungry lion, then
she was happy, slow-roasting zebra chops.
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About Tara SheetsTARA SHEETS is an award-winning author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction. Her work has earned first place recognition in literary contests nationwide and her debut novel, Don’t Call Me Cupcake, won the 2016 Golden Heart® award sponsored by Romance Writers of America®. Tara began her career as an author in the Pacific Northwest, inspired by the rain and the misty mountains and the rivers of Starbucks coffee. She now lives in the warm, wonderful South where she can stand outside with no coat on, and she finds that pretty inspiring too. When not writing, Tara enjoys life with her book-loving family and a book-eating dog named Merlin. She is represented by Sarah Phair at Trident Media Group.
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