Can a lifestyle reporter and coffee shop owner find love brewing between them? Or will their blend be too bitter to succeed?

Emery Darlis hates her job. Once a feature reporter, she now finds herself writing feel-good local stories for a web-based lifestyle magazine. She’s at risk of burning out if she doesn’t get to write something more interesting, and fast.

Trevor Kovacic knows he only has about two months before he’ll have to shut the doors on his café. He inherited the once-thriving business from his grandfather, but despite his best efforts, it’s failing. He needs a miracle.

Emery and Trevor have nothing in common. That is, until they share an unforgettable night together.

They never expect to see each other after that, until Emery makes a bold bet with her boss to write a viral feature, and they end up face to face. Again.

Desperate to win and intrigued by Trevor’s situation, Emery pitches a series of articles about his shop. They’ll have to work together, but that should be easy… if they can each stop thinking about that one, passionate night.

Tropes:

• Coffee vibes
• Black cat/golden retriever MMCs
• Dual point of view
• Workplace romance
• Forced proximity
• One night stand

Possible Content Warnings:

• multiple explicit, on-page sex scenes
• a main character experiences grief over the deaths of his father and grandfather (deaths happen off-page)
• two characters (sisters) have parents who don’t accept them because one is divorced and one is married to a woman
• emotionally abusive ex (on page)
• a little violence (on page)
• a very brief mention of IVF (NOT related to infertility)
• profanity

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Check out Trevor’s Coffee Shop Vibes playlist on Spotify! If you like the music, consider ordering the book!