Butt Crackers: An Unexpected Pairing

She's trying to save her family's factory. He's been sent to shut it down. Unfortunately, America has just discovered their butt crackers.Charlotte "Charlie" Mercer has spent five years sacrificing everything to keep Mercer Manufacturing alive. The struggling Kentucky factory employs twenty-seven people, carries three generations of family history-and produces a traditional wooden barrel tool with one catastrophically unfortunate name.Then a convention video of Charlie declaring, "We've been cracking butts since 1948," goes spectacularly viral.Suddenly, thousands of people want a Mercer Butt Cracker.And Sebastian Vale wants control.Sebastian is the devastatingly polished turnaround consultant representing the investment firm that purchased Mercer's debt. He trusts numbers, avoids attachments, and believes failing businesses should be dismantled before they destroy the people who love them.Charlie believes he's a spreadsheet that learned to shave.Given ninety days to transform an internet joke into a profitable national brand, they must survive exploding orders, broken machinery, predatory suppliers, accidental product launches, an aggressively enthusiastic town-and an attraction neither can keep safely inside the conference room.But as reluctant partnership becomes respect, and respect becomes something far more dangerous, Charlie and Sebastian discover that saving Mercer may require more than money. It will require trust.And when Charlie learns Sebastian withheld the one truth that could destroy everything they built, she must decide whether some betrayals can be forgiven-and whether love means holding on at any cost or choosing, together, what is truly worth saving.Butt Crackers is a smart, laugh-out-loud contemporary romantic comedy bursting with enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, workplace sparks, small-town chaos, competence attraction, found family, emotional depth, and a deeply satisfying happily-ever-after.You may pick it up for the outrageous title. You may continue because Charlie and Sebastian cannot enter the same room without generating friction, heat, or a new spreadsheet. And somewhere along the way, you may realize this ridiculous little romance has quietly cracked open your heart.Some things are worth cracking open. Some people are worth holding onto. And the right love is always worth choosing.