Wren Calloway just traded a cheating husband, a house she loved, and a life that had stopped fitting for a cracked-step bakery in a town she has never seen plus a thirty-one-year-old recipe box she is not sure she is ready to open.
What she did not trade for is a six-foot wall of muscle and flannel running a smoke-everything BBQ joint next door, filling her bakery with the smell of brisket before she has even unlocked the front door.
Cole Merritt is infuriating. Stubborn, serious about his business, and completely unmoved by the fact that his smoker is drifting directly into her display case. He built Merritt's BBQ from nothing and he is not changing a single thing about it - not for Wren, not for anyone.
Except then her refrigerator dies and he shows up without being asked. He adjusts the vent stack in the middle of the night and never mentions it. He leaves five star reviews under a name that cannot be thanked.
And somewhere between the chalkboard war and the festival booth and one very inconvenient kiss, infuriating starts to feel a lot like something else.
But trust is the one thing Wren swore she would never hand over carelessly again. And just when Sugarfield starts to feel like home, just when Cole starts to feel like more, she overhears three words through a thin alley wall that unravel everything.
She cannot know.
Now Wren has to figure out what Cole Merritt is really doing in Sugarfield before she loses the bakery, the town, and the one person who finally made her feel like staying was worth the risk.
Sweet, smoky, and slow to rise. Sweet Sabotage is a small town enemies-to-lovers romance about second chances, secret pasts, and the terrifying decision to trust again. Perfect for fans of slow burn romance that earns every single feeling along the way.
