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Pumpkin Spice Spice Baby by Kerry Evelyn
Series: The Coffee Loft: Fall Collection
Published by Swan Press on September 19, 2024
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance, Adult Sports Romance
Pages: 332
Source: the author
Format: E-galley
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Blurb:
When her ultimate rival needs a place to stay, will she take him in?
I’d rather break my leg again than live with my archenemy, Montgomery Biddington.
But Monty’s got something I want—connections. And when he suddenly needs a place to stay, I know exactly how we can help each other.
I can live with his arrogance and unrelenting passive-aggressive digs. I can fire them right back just as well. I’ve been doing it since we were kids. To us, the term “punchbacks” always meant more than a reverse flip on the mat.
I never expected his compassionate side. A side that makes him almost…lovable.
He even nurses me through an unexpected flare-up of a disease I thought I’d finally gained control of, and he even offered to fill in at my coaching job when I couldn’t leave our apartment. But how can I take him seriously when he’s always teasing me or pranking the hockey team for his gig as its hilarious mascot?
I can never risk admitting my true feelings, even when I catch him sending compassionate looks my way. I can’t compromise the team’s chances of winning or risk losing Monty to silly emotions that will no doubt punch back harder than any of his tumbling passes.
It’s going to take an awful latte of willpower to keep myself closed off. But is this a challenge I want to win?
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Pumpkin Spice Spice Baby is a childhood rivals and frenemies-to-more forced proximity sports romance with #justkisses and no swearing.
Content Warning:
This book contains scenes referencing the death of the MMC’s sister to childhood cancer.
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Welcome back to the Coffee Loft, where a new round of stories has been brewed especially for you!
Those of you stopping by to visit again, we’ve missed you. The feeling of home is the same that you loved before. If it’s your first time, prepare to be swept off your feet.
While our menu hasn’t changed, we think you’ll be pleased with the fall favorites we’ve added. Fans of pumpkin-spiced lattes, peppermint mochas, and rich, chocolaty cocoas will not be disappointed. This multi-author collection of stand-alone sweet rom-coms is filled to the brim with the swoons you’ll love and adore.
From sweet kisses to grand gestures and matchmaking surprises, each mug and story will be filled with everything you crave. So come on in and let us serve you with that happily-ever-after you’ve come to expect!
My Review
Earlier this year I read another story in this series by this author, That Thing You Brew, and enjoyed it enough I was looking forward to reading another book set in this world by this author. Once again I enjoyed this author’s characters and the small town setting, along with the hockey team and the fact that our main characters were athletes, but they were cheerleaders! As with the other book I read, all the family and friends that I know were from other stories, Penny and Xavier from the last one by this author in the series. It was so much fun with all of them around.
This story had a LOT going on. Yes, it was a romance between Monty and Tasha. But it was friends to enemies to friends/lovers, also a little Cyrano de Bergerac with Monty helping Vlad write letters to win Tasha, and throw in the billionaire aspect of Monty’s family, oh and the forced proximity with having to be roommates while Monty’s house was under renovation. It was also interesting to follow Tasha’s health issues, and I know I would love to maybe try some of her recipes, even though I normally am not a fan of gluten-free since I don’t have that issue and it is hard to find good food. But I’m guessing these recipes might actually be good!
I loved when the two of them were living together. The routine they got into with the cooking and helping out with Monty’s Nana Booboo. Such a hilarious name, and such a fun story behind it! There was so much going on with the back stories as well. Monty’s younger sister and parents. Tasha’s sister and her friend. Then there was Vlad, the hockey player that Tasha went on dates with for a bit. It seemed he might really just want to get US citizenship and to get her to marry him for that. Not that he was a bad guy, he was nice enough, but there just didn’t ever seem to be a spark between the two. And Tasha in a way just wanted to find her own hockey player like her friends and sister had, partly to help with the bills she had for her health issues, and maybe so she didn’t have to work three jobs anymore.
As I said, there was so much going on this story. It was a clean/sweet romance once again, as all in this series are. But I liked the kissing, and it didn’t feel too out of reality for me the way the whole story went. Another great story by this author in this series and I hope there will be more!
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About the Author
Kerry Evelyn is the author of the Crane’s Cove series, #sweetresortromance set in Coastal Maine, the Palmer City Voltage #sweethockeyromance series, a Guest Author for the Cat’s Paw Cove series, and several short stories that span multiple genres. Kerry received a Bachelor of Science in Education and Sociology from Bridgewater State University in 2000. A native of the Massachusetts SouthCoast, she changed her latitude and now calls the Orlando area home. Kerry loves God, books, cats, traveling, taking selfies, sweet drinks, and escaping into her imagination. You can find her on:
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Now here’s the real story…
I love love. The idea of it, the feeling of it, the crazy butterfly fluttery reactions to it, the gestures associated with it, and the fact that it can both bring you to your highest highest high and destroy you in an instant.
But that’s life, isn’t it?
Love is powerful.
So I write about it.
Naturally, I write romance novels. I didn’t intend to. Oh, no, I was going to write historical women’s fiction because that’s what I read and what my favorite authors wrote.
I tried. I really did. But women’s fiction can be so darn depressing.
I needed my characters to have a happily-ever-after. And once again, the fairytale endings of the Disney princesses influenced a BIG life change. (If you’ve just met me, you should know that first BIG life change was moving to Orlando with my cat Duchess when I was 24. I met my husband on the 17th day—it was SO meant to be!)
Fast forward to me, age 37, stay-at-home part-time homeschool mom, abandoned teaching career, both loving and hating serving my sweet family exclusively. I got it, achieved the ideal—that Cinderella story was MINE—but it was now in reverse. Scrubbing floors, waking up early to prep the day for the people, failing at potty training, housekeeping, and caring for two cats in kidney failuere.
I had lost my joy.
Every day, I was cleaning up poop.
I hate poop.
God laughed. But he also opened a door. My friend Rebecca dragged me to a conference for moms. Actually, she enticed me with a weekend in a hotel sans kids. I love my kids. I love my husband. But I was overwhelmed (hubby traveled for work, a lot) and I needed a break. I was restless and felt like something was missing.
That weekend changed the course of my life. I was challenged to remember what I loved to do and always wanted to be. Who God made me to be.
So I started writing. I wrote almost a full women’s historical fiction novel and got stuck. As I attempted to get unstuck, scenes for a new story kept appearing in my mind. A small idyllic seaside town in Maine. A wounded military hero. A strong woman. A couple helping each other past their greatest pain and finding love in the process.
I canned the historical and wrote the romance. Love on the Edge was published December 5, 2017, one month before my 40th birthday. And it’s been a wild ride ever since!
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