He's the last man I should've picked for a one-night stand.

See that guy over there? The insanely tall, broad-shouldered, dark-haired, scowling, “I don’t drink coffee” suit? Surprise! He’s the new owner of my family’s mountain café. The café that has been my life purpose since I was born in the kitchen there almost 30 years ago. The café that he’s planning to completely gut and renovate for revenge against my family.

He’s also the funny, charming, irresistible guy I spilled all of my secrets to last week. During the hottest one-night stand of my life.

As my dog would say, woof me.

Secrets and gossip keep getting me in trouble, and I swore I was done with both, but now my family’s café is on the line. It’s time to use every last trick I know to uncover every secret this man is hiding.

I don’t care how much I liked him our first night together or how much I keep seeing glimpses of that man beneath his gruff exterior. One of us has to go. It won’t be me.

The Gossip and the Grump is a one-night-stand-to-enemies-to-lovers rom-com featuring a woman desperately trying to unlearn everything she knows about everyone, a grumpy misfit hiding a secret heart of gold, an unfortunate incident with powdered cheese, and the world’s biggest lap puppy. It is a stand-alone, but you wouldn’t go wrong listening to The Worst Wedding Date first.