A grumpy meteorologist exiled to a tiny pastoral town must fake-date the relentlessly cheerful local baker to save both their reputations—but the forecast calls for real feelings neither of them ordered.
Eliot Wren used to be America’s favourite weatherman—until a spectacular on-air meltdown went viral and got him banished to Cloverdale, a ridiculously charming small town where the rolling green hills are endless, the locals are nosy, and the annual Heart Shaped Clouds Festival is treated with the reverence of a national holiday. His plan? Keep his head down, host the local weather segment, and get back to his real career. That plan lasts approximately forty-five minutes—which is how long it takes him to publicly insult the town baker’s scones. To her face.
Josie Bellamy is Cloverdale’s golden girl—the warm, flour-dusted, relentlessly cheerful owner of Flour & Freckles bakery, and the last person who should be anywhere near a cynical, overdressed city boy who doesn’t even believe in cloud-watching. But when a tabloid reporter comes sniffing around Eliot’s past and Josie’s ex starts parading his new fiancée through town, a fake-dating arrangement sounds like the perfect solution.
The rules are simple: look smitten through the festival, keep the press happy, make her ex jealous, and absolutely do not fall for each other.
The problem? Eliot’s apartment is directly above Josie’s kitchen. She smells like vanilla and brown butter at all hours. And the grumpy weatherman is falling—hard, fast, and first—for a woman who swore she’d never love someone with one foot out the door.
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Genre: Contemporary Romance / Romantic Comedy (RomCom)
POV: Dual First Person (Eliot & Josie)
Word Count: ~80,000 words (30 chapters)
Ending: HEA (Happily Ever After)
Series: The Cloverdale Series, Book 1
Series Format: Each book follows a different couple in Cloverdale — standalone readable
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