Sweet as Magnolia

She came home to hide. He came to Georgia for the whiskey. Neither one planned on each other.

Lottie Pace left Magnolia Creek with a marriage, a plan, and the certainty that she would never come back. She's back. The marriage is over. The plan is in pieces. And the last thing she needs is a quiet Scotsman standing in her mother's kitchen holding a fire extinguisher and looking at her like she is a problem he cannot solve but would very much like to understand.

Callum Brodie came to Georgia to build a whiskey distillery. He did not come to fall for a woman who cooks like she is having an argument with the universe, who talks to her sourdough starter, and who has the entire town's unsolicited advice arriving in casserole form. He is precise. She is chaos. He measures. She estimates. He does not belong here. She is not sure she does either.

But Magnolia Creek has opinions. The neighbors bring pie. Mama has a porch swing and a theory about everything. And The Wooden Spoon — the diner that has been feeding this town's love stories for sixty years — has a booth in the back where two people who were not looking for each other keep ending up anyway.

"She makes biscuits at two in the morning when she cannot sleep. I have started finding reasons to be awake at two in the morning. This is not a coincidence. I am a man of science. This is a hypothesis."

Sweet as Magnolia is Book 1 in Magnolia Creek, a five-book interconnected standalone series set in a fictional Georgia town where the sweet tea flows, the opinions are unsolicited, and every love story comes with a side of pecan pie. Dual POV. Medium-high heat. Guaranteed HEA.

Small-town Southern romance. Scottish hero. She came home broken and he fell first. Biscuits at midnight. Community chaos. Food as a love language. The kind of book that makes you want to move to a town where someone brings you a casserole when your life falls apart.

For fans of Southern small-town romance, dual-POV slow burn, and romances that smell like a Southern kitchen.

Free with this complete series.