A Terrible Time to Be Charming by LOVVA
Her café needs customers. Her opening week needs a miracle. Neither requires him to be attractive.
Maya Bennett has poured her savings into Little Hours, a Sydney neighbourhood café with second-hand furniture, excellent coffee and an opening date she refuses to move. Then the refrigerator fails, her baker withdraws, and Theo Lawson walks through the door.
Theo is the hospitality consultant who once described her business plan as “optimism with a spreadsheet.” He is composed, inconveniently helpful and considerably harder to dislike when he is holding a mop.
A Witty Contemporary Romance Set in Sydney
Opening-week mishaps turn into shared meals, sharp banter and dates Maya hadn’t planned to make time for. Behind Theo’s professional confidence is a man reconsidering his career. Behind Maya’s determination is a woman learning that accepting support does not mean surrendering control.
But Theo is considering a job with the group opening a competing café nearby. When he delays telling Maya, their growing attraction meets a problem that charm cannot solve.
A Terrible Time to Be Charming is a standalone contemporary romance novella about ambition, honesty and making room for love when life refuses to become less complicated.
What You Will Find Inside
- A neighbourhood café setting in Marrickville, Sydney.
- Witty dialogue, opening-week chaos and gradually developing attraction.
- Alternating viewpoints following café owner Maya and consultant Theo.
- A supporting cast of outspoken relatives, capable colleagues and generous neighbours.
- Believable conflict involving work, trust, money and personal boundaries.
- Non-graphic, fade-to-black intimacy.
- A complete happy ending and a one-year-later epilogue.
A Taste of the Banter
“Do you always criticise businesses before ordering?”
“Only when the owner asks for my professional opinion.”
“I asked whether you wanted toast.”
Who Is This eBook For?
This book is for adult readers who enjoy contemporary romance with humour, independent characters and emotional depth. If you like café settings, imperfect first impressions and relationships built through everyday choices, Maya and Theo’s story belongs on your reading list.
What Is Included?
- A professionally formatted, 54-page PDF edition.
- A reflowable EPUB edition with adjustable text in compatible reading apps.
- 24 chapters and an epilogue.
- Approximately 12,000 words in Australian English.
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The coffee is strong. The timing is terrible. The attraction is becoming difficult to ignore.
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