Molly D’Arbo owns the most popular, and only, coffee shop in Wintervale. Bean There, Done That is a hub of gossip and community in the small Vermont town, and Molly loves that her store gets to be in the middle of all of it. But when a national coffee chain, and its handsome, arrogant CEO, try to move into Wintervale, will everything Molly has worked for disappear?Tate Lewis is the reluctant CEO … reluctant CEO of Gemini Coffee, a former wild child and musician forced into the business world by his no-nonsense father. He is sent to Wintervale, Vermont, a popular little arts community, to try and open up the latest branch of Gemini Coffee. But when he arrives, he meets resistance in the form of a spunky café owner, who isn’t willing to see her beloved town go corporate.
Can these two bickering business people find a way to work together… and will they find something else in the process, like a shot of romance?
Contains TWO recipes inspired by the residents of Wintervale
‘Love and Espresso’ is a 43k word, standalone clean romance with a guaranteed happy ending and a sprinkling of Cupid’s magic!
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I enjoyed reading this cute, clean story. I like Molly because she is independent and feisty. I like Tate too, he just needs to be more independent. Although these two appear to be on opposites sides, they actually have some common ground with “family” drama. Molly and her best friend are hilarious which adds comedy to this battle of the coffee grinds, lol. I received an advance review copy at no cost and without obligation from the author.
This is the third book in the Wintervale Promises, it is the first book I have read by this Author I will be reading the rest of the books in this series. Molly D’Arbo owns the coffee shop Bean There, Done That in Wintervale, but Tate Lewis the CEO of Gemini Coffee wants to get Gemini coffee in the town at the urging of his father. He meets Molly and does not know how to keep his Father from taking over the town. Molly’s estranged Father ended up being a whole lot better than Tate’s. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
First, I would like to thank Melodie March for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
Melodie March instantly piqued my interest with her latest novel titled Love and Expresso. Who doesn’t love coffee and a good love story?! This is the third book in the Wintervale Promises Series. However, If you had not read the other books in the series no problem. You can read this as a standalone as I did. It was easy to follow the storyline and the characters.
Kudos to the Graphic Designer who did the cover of this book as they captured the essence of the book I got the sensation I was looking at Tate and Molly in Wintervale.
I had to smile when I saw the character’s name Brady in the book. Brady is the name of my nephew and it is rare you see that name used in a book.
Not to mention the name of the coffee shop Bean There, Done had me smiling from ear to ear. Such creativity Melodie March has.
As I was reading this book I kept thinking this would be so perfect for a Hallmark Channel Movie right around Valentine’s Day. This is such a sweet story set in a cute little town of Wintervale.
The character Tate lives in New York (as I live In Buffalo, NY) and we are used to bad snowy winters. We may not like it but we deal with it. So, when he goes to Wintervale in February it is comical to me when the towns people comment that NOBODY comes here in bad winter weather.
Melodie gave her readers two special treats at the end of her book. She gave us two recipe’s that she talked about in the book. The first one was the Hot Cocoa Recipe and the second one was Molly’s Homemade Coffee Cake.