Sugar & Sawdust

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I inherited a ruined bakery, an empty bank account, and a massive, grumpy contractor who refuses to let me fail.Ten years. That is how long I have fought every battle completely alone. When I sink my life savings into an inherited mountain-town bakery, it is supposed to be my fresh start. Instead, the contractor I hired robs me blind, leaving me with frozen pipes, a caving roof, and a grand opening looming in exactly four weeks. I am drowning under the debris, and I have absolutely no one to help me.Then Grady walks through my shattered front door.He is a mountain of a man in faded denim and a heavy leather toolbelt. He is the county contractor sent to legally condemn my building. Instead, with calloused hands and a permanent scowl, he starts swinging a hammer.He replaces the load-bearing beams. He repairs the plumbing. He physically carries me upstairs to bed when I pass out over my recipe books. And he refuses to take a single dime in return.My entire life, I have operated on one brutal rule: depending on a man means giving him the power to destroy you. But Grady doesn't want my money, and he doesn't want control. He just wants me. Safe, successful, and completely his.It is a terrifying, intoxicating thing to let a man this capable handle the heavy lifting. But as the snow piles up and the grand opening draws closer, I have to ask myself: what happens when the building is finished, and I have no walls left to hide behind?Sugar and Sawdust is a completely standalone, steamy small-town romance featuring a fiercely independent baker and an ultra-competent, protective blue-collar hero who communicates completely through acts of service. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.Tropes & Themes: - Blue-Collar / Contractor Hero- Small Town Bakery- "Acts of Service" Love Language- Size Difference & Forced Proximity- Steamy Contemporary Romance- Extreme Protective Alpha Male

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Pages: 171, Paperback, Centuria Books LLC