Part of Series
He is looking for a new challenge in his life. She wants the challenges to stop. They just might be the answer to one another's problems. Cash Evans, famous chef and entrepreneur, has lost the spice in his life. He wants a fresh perspective, and going home to Harvest Ranch for a few days sounds like the perfect place for it. He plans to keep a low profile until he sees the "Sticky and Sweet" honey shop driving into town. A childhood dream brought to fruition by the one person he longs to see, but has been hiding from for years—a feisty red head that he's pretty sure could bring him to his knees even now. Five months after the death of her father, Jocelyn Ward finds that her bills are piling up and her family is in turmoil. She’s in a sticky spot that only gets worse after her honey shop is broken into. Then Cash walks back into her life. As a boy, he left without saying goodbye; as a man, he makes her heart race. While trouble after trouble hits the business and Jo can no longer manage alone, Cash offers and unlikely solution to her problems: Pretend to be engaged.
Author
Ellie Thornton is an award-winning author who has been writing since she could lift a pencil and making up stories even longer than that. For years she worked part-time jobs so she would always have time to write, read, and travel. Some of her favorite filler jobs include working as an editor, at a nursery (flowers not children,) as a driving instructor (not as harrowing as one might think,) writing a blog called Confessions of a Property Manager, and being a ghost tour guide. She loves mysteries (reading and writing them) and especially enjoys the ones with sweet romance involved. Her "Reboot Mystery Series," (Previously known as "The Contemporary Reboot Series,") is a mystery series that takes classics like "Pride and Prejudice," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Jane Eyre," and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" puts them in a modern setting and adds a murder mystery and a love story that builds from one book to the next. (Not an easy feat!) She's currently super into honey and beeswax and everything bee related as she is writing a book for Gelato Publishing's Halloween Sweet Romance Series, "Pumpkins and Proposals." Her main character is a beekeeper and owns a business that's all about honey, and beeswax related products. And again, because she loves a good mystery, you'll also find some intrigue there too. She also writes a writing, editing, and marketing blog for authors under the name Emily Clark called Write of Passages. If she's not at her computer, you can typically find her reading, listening to podcasts, at the local library, in her garden, in her kitchen, or with her sister and her sister's kids.
