A Layer of Love
(A Recipe for Love Novel Book 6)
by Kelly Collins

She’s broke and bored. He’s busy and burdened. Can they create something delicious together or are they a recipe for disaster?

Single mother Chelsea Sweet craves more than cartoons and T-ball practice. She needs adult companionship. Looking to meet someone she can have a grownup conversation with, she joins an early morning exercise group, only to find that the women aren’t interested in adding a new friend, and the sole man in attendance is so rude she nicknames him Mr. Mean. When her son’s school summons her for an emergency, she happily abandons her quest and falls back into her role as parent, peacemaker, and protector.

After the death of his wife, Brett Bayless is buried under the weight of singlehandedly raising a daughter, retaining his job, and finding a way to move on alone. One crisis seems to follow another, so when the school calls and says his daughter has been involved in an incident, it’s not a surprise. However, seeing her with no front teeth is. When the parent of the perpetrator turns out to be the awful woman from his exercise class, he’s happy to make her pay … for his daughter’s dental work and the hit to his ego.

The two find themselves thrown together by circumstances, only to discover the line between love and hate is as thin as spun sugar. Will the stresses that brought them together cause their relationship to fall flat, or can the layers of their lives blend to create something sweet?

Find out in A Layer of Love …

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

I prefer them human with a smidge of decency, an ounce of kindness, and a spoonful of humility. What you are is a pound of pain in my ass.

 

Love is like chocolate: you never really have enough to quench the cravings.

 

At the end, we were a marriage of convenience. Only we were married, and it wasn’t convenient for her.

 

He looked around his new house and shook his head. Everything there needed to go. Moving all his modern furniture into a cabin was like putting fur on a fish and calling it a dog. It didn’t make sense, but then, nothing made sense lately.

  

My Review:

 

I have said it before and I know I’ll say it again, as I’m fickle like that, but this is my favorite Kelly Collins book of all time. This was a quick, easy-to-follow, enjoyable, satisfying, and refreshing read and exactly what I needed. I adored these lovable characters and their sweet burgeoning romance. They were lovely people, although it took a few beats for them to see each other that way.   Their struggles were real and relatable yet never over the top. I am a bit behind with this series and need to backtrack and read the earlier installments, but I am reveling in the premise and am eager for more.

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