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Stirred Still: A Curvy Neighborhood Second-Chance Romance (The Curvy Café Chronicles Book 3)
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Series: The Curvy Café Chronicles, Book 3
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She spent her whole life watching everyone else's love story.
She never expected to find her own hidden in the family she thought she knew.
Valentina Rossi is the sister who sees everything - the quiet one, the one who keeps the books, the one who reads a room and slips out the door. It's safe on the outside of a story. No one watches the watcher.
Then she finds a photograph no one will explain: her grandmother, young and laughing, beside a man the family erased sixty years ago. The trail leads to Elio Conti - a luthier who restores broken instruments, a man who lives in the past exactly the way Valentina does... and who isn't telling her why he really came looking for the Rossis.
As they trace a love story buried for six decades, Valentina makes the most dangerous discovery of her careful life: she's falling. And the one time she stops watching is the one time she needed to see - because Elio has been hiding something from the start, and being blindsided is the very thing she built her whole life to avoid.
To break a silence that's haunted three generations of Rossi women, Valentina will have to do the one thing she's never done: stop watching her life from a foot away - and finally, completely, live it.
The heartwarming conclusion to the Curvy Café Chronicles - a dual-timeline romance about a curvy heroine who's never been chosen, a sixty-year secret, and a family learning, at last, to say the true thing out loud while there's still time.
Readers who love this book get:
A curvy heroine who finally gets to be the one who's chosenA swoony luthier hero with a secret
A dual-timeline 1960s love story woven through
The whole Rossi family - and a series wedding
An emotional, all-the-feels finale
Guaranteed HEA - no cheating, no cliffhangers
A satisfying series finale - best enjoyed after Books 1 & 2. One-click and come home to Little Italy.
What readers are saying... Bring tissues!The perfect ending to a series I didn't want to end. Valentina's the quiet sister, and watching her finally step into her own life wrecked me in the best way. Swoony hero, a sixty-year secret, and a Little Italy I want to live in.
That secret!
I did NOT see the twist coming. The way the past and present weave together had me racing to the end. Elio is the gentlest book boyfriend, Valentina finally gets to be chosen, and the whole Rossi family had me grinning. Slow burn done right.
A curvy heroine done right
Valentina is adored exactly as she is - no makeovers, no changing herself, just seen and wanted. Add a swoony luthier, a mystery six decades in the making, and food you can practically smell? Chef's kiss. Read the whole series!
About the Author:
Helena Moreau writes swoony, slow-burn romantic comedies about strong, curvy heroines, cinnamon-roll men, and the beautiful chaos of falling in love when you least expect it. When she's not baking up fictional wedding disasters or writing flirty banter at midnight, she's drinking too much coffee, misplacing her phone, and pretending not to cry at strangers' love stories. She believes in messy feelings, happy endings, and second chances-preferably with frosting.
Also check out the hit Curvy Brides Club series by Helena Moreau!
About the Publisher:
At BLOCKBUSTER STORY PUBLISHING, we believe in the power of a great story to captivate, entertain, and inspire.Our authors are focused on writing, not chasing likes and followers, building author websites or obsessing over social media-they're here to create and share unforgettable stories.
We publish books for readers, not algorithms. If you're looking for bold, entertaining stories that put the art of storytelling first, you've come to the right place.
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