Cozy Spice: Novellas Sugar & Sawdust, (Paperback)

<p><b>I inherited a ruined bakery, an empty bank account, and a massive, grumpy contractor who refuses to let me fail.</b></p><p>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.</p><p>Then Grady walks through my shattered front door.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <i>me</i>. Safe, successful, and completely his.</p><p>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?</p><p><i>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.</i></p><p><b>Tropes &amp; Themes: </b></p><ul><li>Blue-Collar / Contractor Hero</li><li>Small Town Bakery</li><li>"Acts of Service" Love Language</li><li>Size Difference &amp; Forced Proximity</li><li>Steamy Contemporary Romance</li><li>Extreme Protective Alpha Male</li></ul>

• Cozy Spice: Novellas Sugar & Sawdust, (Paperback)
• Author: Centuria Books LLC
• ISBN: 9781969650987
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-01
• Page Count: 172