The Ledger and The Latte: The Hearth Café Christmas Series Book 2: A Clean Small-Town Christian Romance of Faith, Forgiveness, and Redemption
About
Last Christmas, he said six words he would give anything to take back. This Christmas, he has three better ones.
Attorney Marlene Hutton walked away from a corporate law firm to serve the small businesses she once argued against. Now she’s building a quiet practice of her own, along with a friendship with Everett Osborne that’s slowly become something more.
Then the building beneath the Osborne family’s beloved Hearth Café is quietly prepared for sale.
Marlene knows every line of the café’s lease, because she wrote it. That’s exactly why she can’t help. The man selling the building was once her client, and the ethics that came with her law license keep her hands tied, no matter how badly she wants to fight for the family who has come to feel like her own.
Everett counts everything, including receipts, deposits, and the days until a deadline. With the buyer rushing to close before Christmas and his family’s future resting on one unsigned page, the man who once let fear speak for him must learn to trust what he can’t control. And Marlene, who has spent her life earning her place by fixing things, must discover whether she can belong somewhere when she has nothing to offer but herself.
As snow settles over Millbrook and the Advent candles are lit one by one, two careful hearts learn that some things will never fit in a ledger, and that love was never a debt to be repaid.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Slow-burn, friends-to-more than friends romance
- Small-town Christmas stories with a big heart
- A family fighting to save their business against a holiday deadline
- A heroine whose hands are tied and a hero working toward redemption
- Faith that makes room for doubt
- Found family, a wise meddling neighbor, and a cozy café corner booth
- A Christmas Eve to remember
The Ledger and the Latte is Book 2 in the Hearth Café Christmas Series. It can be enjoyed as a standalone, but readers of Steam and Second Chances will love returning to Millbrook. This is a clean, closed-door romance with no profanity.
Pour a cup of coffee, slide into the corner booth, and fall in love with Millbrook this Christmas.