Sugar and Sawdust

Poppy Daigle has run the only bakery in Cedar Mill for a decade, and nobody has ever asked her what she wants. Cole Brennan runs the lumberyard and a reputation that isn't fair. They're not a couple. They're a repeated mistake with ground rules: no sleepovers, no holidays, no feelings. Then January brings a test with two pink lines, and Cole — steady, quiet, infuriating — sits on her kitchen floor and says, tell me what you need. The town finds out in February. Her sister comes home in March. And by spring Poppy has to learn to say out loud what she's been hiding behind buttercream for years: that she wants the bakery bigger, the baby kept, and the man who was never supposed to be on the list. A warm, funny small-town romance about the woman everyone relies on finally asking for something.