2015 RONE Award for Best Contemporary Sweet Romance Novel!
According to Rachel Marconi chocolate heals all wounds. That and throwing darts at pictures of her ex-boyfriend. Burned by yet another bad relationship, Rachel decides to reprioritize her life, putting her dream to compete on a Food Network Challenge on the top of her list and dating at the bottom crossed out in red sharpie. But what’s a … But what’s a girl to do when a certain sexy guy keeps asking her out?
Cue in Graydon Green, a former pro hockey player turned restaurant owner. After a lot of persistent and humorous teasing, he finally convinces Rachel to commit to a date. Just when things begin to warm up, threatening notes directed at Rachel arrive. When her bakery is vandalized, Graydon’s protective streak goes on red alert. Is it her obsessive ex-boyfriend stalking her? Or maybe a challenger trying to sabotage the competition?
Either way, Rachel is definitely going to need more chocolate – perhaps drizzled over ice cream and devil’s food cake.
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A lovely, sweet romance with a few hair-raising twists. I loved Ms. Ferguson’s tale of love between an up and coming baker and a retired pro hockey player. I especially loved the way the author made the extended families feel real. If you love sweet romance, this is the book for you.
Rachel can see it now. A sparkly ring on her left ring finger. She is this close to getting her happily ever after. This. Close. That is until her boyfriend Nico tells her that he’s married. Married with kids. How did she not see this?! Without even thinking she punches him in the face and runs away. But Nico just won’t let her leave the restaurant. She has to let him explain everything. The more she tries to leave, the more aggressive he gets.
Enter in the very handsome Graydon Green who comes to her rescue and offers her a safe place to hide out until Nico is gone and her cab arrives. While she’s sitting in the office talking to the handsome stranger she decides that enough is enough. It’s time to get her life back on track. She needs to focus on her bakery and competing on a Food Network Challenge and winning. Men are completely off the table.
But Graydon has a different plan in mind. He has never met anyone like Rachel before and he is determined to get to know her better. He soon realizes that he’ll need to take things slow if he ever wants a chance with her. But he has all the time in the world to make her his. She just doesn’t know it yet.. 😉
And just when things start to heat up between Rachel and Graydon, unseen forces arise and throw a wrench in their happily ever after. Between her stalker, threatening notes, vandalism, and sabotage at the competition, Rachel and Graydon will have to hold on tight and hope they discover who’s behind it all before it’s too late.
Loved… Loved… LOVED Sweet Confections! I could not put it down! Rachel and Graydon had an awesome relationship! Rachel is a little firecracker! I loved how she just said whatever popped into her mind and didn’t seem to have a filter. Graydon was just amazing! He was patient, he was encouraging, he had faith in her and always knew exactly what to do when she needed him most.
I think one of my favorite scenes was when he met her family for Sunday dinner! Hilarious! And I loved little Stockton! Such a sweet precious child! I got all teary eyed when he talked to Graydon… you just have to read the book to know what I’m talking about… 😉 *sigh*
I loved the mystery added into the mix. I had my suspicions pretty early on and even though I am not a patient person when it comes to mysteries, I let the story unfold naturally and really enjoyed that element of the book.
I loved all the characters and the relationships they had with each other. The book was just amazing! I can’t wait to read the next book in the series!
Danyelle Ferguson is definitely a new favorite of mine! Can’t wait to try some of the recipes at the end of the book! A huge plus if you ask me! 😉