Wishful Moments: Once Upon a Coffee

✅ blind date

✅ mistaken identity

A blind date and a case of mistaken identity just might lead to love…

After a long series of stinkers, when a respectful match from an online dating site asks to meet Avery Cahill in real life, she agrees. Invoking her favorite romantic comedy, they arrange to meet in a local coffee shop with a flower and a book.

Under a serious deadline to finish a group project for his MBA–solo–the only thing Dillon Lange wants is peace and quiet. When a beautiful stranger sits down in his booth at the coffee shop, he knows he ought to say something about not being who she thinks he is, but he can’t resist her smile or her engaging conversation.

How long can he keep up the charade? And what will happen when her real date shows up?

✅ he falls first

✅ forced proximity

✅ snowed in

✅ cute animals

What’s the worst that could happen in this snowbound Southern romance?

As director of the local animal shelter, Brooke Redding is used to being the one doing the rescuing. But when a freak winter storm endangers her animals with sub-freezing temperatures and enough snow to constitute a Mississippi blizzard, she’s in the market for a miracle.

Hayden Garrow wants nothing more than to be her hero. With four-wheel drive, an empty barn, and a crush on Brooke that goes back to junior high, he’s got a plan to save all her furry charges. They’ve just got to survive icy roads, canine labor, and a pair of matchmaking octogenarians to get there.

✅ over 40

✅ opposites attract

✅ forced proximity

✅ silver fox

✅ series crossover (Wishful/Wishing for a Hero)

✅ novelette

After thirty-five years being married to the badge, former police chief Robert Curry has more than earned his retirement. Time to kick back, relax… and be bored out of his mind. At least until he gets dragged to a dinner party he won't soon forget.

Veteran romance writer Dinah McClure has dealt with short deadlines, grumpy editors, and two ex-husbands—but she’s never faced writer’s block before. Her niece brings together three former and current police chiefs to help tackle the problem, but it's one silver fox who captures her attention.

As Dinah and Robert work together to unravel the tangle of her latest project, their collaboration kindles a plot twist she didn't expect—an undeniable chemistry that makes her jaded heart yearn. Is she willing to take a chance on love off the page, or will their connection fizzle the moment she writes "The End"?