The Midwinter Arrangement

A Sweet Small-Town Romance with a Gentle Mystery

von Posy Ashworth

246 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The town has nine weeks to raise eighty-one thousand dollars. It has never raised anything in its life.Dahlia Okonkwo gets up at half past three. She has a bakery that opens at five, a Christmas order book eleven pages long, and three loaves priced the way her mother priced them in 2011.She does not have time to be voted Midwinter Sweetheart.She particularly does not have time to be voted it alongside Sam Kirby - who arrived from Portland eleven days ago, ate half a loaf standing on the harbour wall, and then walked into her shop and told her, to her face, across her own counter, that what she had was not a business.He was right about the number. He was wrong about the reason. It takes her most of a winter to work out the difference - and by then it is not the only thing she has got wrong.The Sweethearts lead the Lantern Walk. The Sweethearts' names go on the grant application. So for nine weeks, in front of a town that knows everybody's business before they do, two people who are professionally opposed have to look like two people who are not.Then the permit is withdrawn six days before a deadline. Then two hundred pounds of flour is left where the damp gets it. Then a rumour goes round that is dangerous for one reason only: every word of it is true.Somebody in Bellhaven Bay wants this to fail.And the only person who knows why has stood behind the same counter on Harbour Street since 1971, and has never once in her life answered a direct question.The Midwinter Arrangement is Book Two of the Bellhaven Bay Romances. It stands on its own.Sweet, closed-door small-town romance with a gentle mystery, a nosy and well-meaning town, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after in every book. No spice. No cliffhangers on the romance. Fake dating, rivals to lovers, forced proximity, one bed - and absolutely no third-act breakup, because nobody has time for that.

• ISBN: 9798193116776
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2026
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp