Don’t Call Me Cupcake (The Holloway Girls #1) by Tara Sheets- Review, Excerpt & Giveaway Tour

DON’T CALL ME CUPCAKE
The Holloway Girls #1
by Tara Sheets
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 24, 2018

There’s a very special kind of sweetness to life on Pine Cove Island . . .

Most families have a favorite recipe or two, handed down through generations. The Holloway women are a little different. Emma Holloway, like her grandmother before her, bakes wishes into her delicious cupcakes, granting the recipient comfort, sweet dreams, or any number of good things. It’s a strange gift, but it brings only happiness. Until gorgeous, smooth-talking newcomer Hunter Kane strolls into her shop, Fairy Cakes–and Emma makes the mistake of selling him not one, but three Sweet Success cupcakes.

Hunter, it turns out, is opening a fancy new restaurant and bakery right on the waterfront–Emma’s competition. To make matters worse, the town committee has decided to split the upcoming summer festival contract between the two, forcing Emma to work with her nemesis. But she can’t afford to split her profits. The solution: create a recipe that will make Hunter leave town permanently.

The Holloway charms are powerful. But there are other kinds of magic in the world–like red-hot first kisses, secret glances, and the feeling that comes with falling truly, madly, inconveniently in love .

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REVIEW: Emma is struggling to make ends meet. She bakes just a little magic into every cupcake. But she needs just a little magic in her own life…..

Emma has magical powers, she bakes cupcakes that give the person eating it benefits ….. feeling well, successful and sweet dreams, all effects are a positive to the person eating the cupcakes.

But, Emma gives three of her success cupcakes to a man, who she later discovers that he’s going to open a restaurant in competition to her, and that could mean the end of her business…..
After that disastrous meeting, she then finds out that she has to work with him in the preparations for the local summer festival, and she can’t say no as she’s now almost broke!!

Hunter comes to this sleepy little town with nothing more in his mind that setting up a restaurant, and then leaving, but the cute owner of a cupcake business makes him hesitate, he could do with a little distraction and the chemistry is good between them, and she makes amazing cupcakes. What’s the rush ? And after tasting Emma’s cupcakes his interest turns into more ……

With this hanging over her, Emma resorts to magic again !! Emma and her cousin decide to make a cupcake that will hopefully make her competitor leave the area and stay away.

But with bad luck on her side, another charm gets spilt and the attraction between Hunter and Emma grows!!

The author then adds an ex from Emma’s past and a few funny moments with a puppy, who knows where this will lead ?
Will their attachment to each other grow ? Or is it just the “magic” in the cupcake ?

It’s a fun read for an afternoon in the sun, add a cupcake and coffee ?

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Reviewed by Julie B

“We should probably get back,” she said quietly.
“Probably.” Hunter didn’t move. He still held the wild rose in one hand, his other hanging loose at his side, fingers
itching to touch her.
She took a shaky breath.
Their eyes locked.
With infinite slowness, he closed the gap between them and reached his arm around her waist, settling his hand on
her lower back. He felt as though he were in a trance, like everything else faded around them and the only thing he
could see clearly was her. She was warm and soft, and touching her felt right. A thrill shot through him when she didn’t resist. He pulled her body flush against his and she exhaled on a tiny sigh.
Emma tilted her head back, her eyes half closed, her breathing shallow. The scent of chocolate and honeysuckle
surrounded him and the urge to taste her was so strong, he almost groaned out loud. The rose fell to the ground, forgotten, as he wrapped both arms around her and lowered his head.
Her eyes fluttered shut.
When he lowered his lips to hers, she grabbed fistfuls of his shirt, pulling him closer. For the briefest, most blissful of
moments she brushed her lips against his. The whisper-soft touch of her mouth on his was intoxicating. He was drowning and he never wanted to come up for air. This was heaven.

Tara Sheets is an award-winning author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction. Her debut novel, Don’t Call Me Cupcake, won the 2016 Golden Heart® award sponsored by Romance Writers of America. Tara began her career as an author in the Pacific Northwest, inspired by the rain and the misty mountains and the rivers of Starbucks coffee. She now lives in the warm, wonderful South where she can stand outside with no coat on, and she finds that pretty inspiring too. When not writing, Tara enjoys life with her book-loving family and a book-eating dog named Merlin.

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