<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><p>Iris Chance is turning thirty-three. She’s an independent<br/>woman, the owner of the Sunflower Coffee and Tea Company in Hidden Falls,<br/>Oregon. Hidden Falls boasts clean air, natural beauty, good neighbors. The only<br/>problem is that there are zero interesting single men and Iris wants a baby.<br/>She’d love the whole package -- the love story, the sexy romance with a hero<br/>who will sweep her off her feet, but she doesn’t have time to wait for Mr.<br/>Right. He may lose his way and never show up. She decides to start a family with<br/>the help of a sperm bank, knowing she’ll have her large family to support and<br/>encourage her as a single mom. When the new High School English teacher, Geoff<br/>McLeod, walks into her café and into her life he seems perfect. There’s only<br/>one problem…</p><br/><br/><p> </p><br/><br/><p>Geoff McLeod never imagined his wife would end their six-<br/>year marriage with a text message. Reeling from her betrayal, he moves to<br/>Hidden Falls to teach English and Creative Writing. He’s got zero interest in<br/>women or dating until he meets Iris Chance, the intriguing woman who bakes the<br/>best Morning Glory muffins he’s ever tasted. He can’t imagine starting his day<br/>without stopping in on his way to work for coffee and a muffin and to see the<br/>sexiest woman who ever donned an apron. </p><br/><br/><p> </p><br/><br/><p>Iris is oldest girl in a family of eleven kids. She’s always<br/>been the stand-in mother to her younger siblings. She’s got so used to looking<br/>out for other people and listening to their problems that she’s become the<br/>confidante and unofficial therapist of half the town. She can see that the new<br/>English teacher has some emotional baggage dragging along behind him. He looks<br/>like he can use a friend and Iris has never been able to turn away from someone<br/>in pain. She’s prepared to be his friend, but she would never get involved with<br/>someone who is still officially married. </p><br/><br/><p> </p><br/><br/><p>When her matchmaking mother invites the new English teacher<br/>to her birthday party everyone begins to wonder whether this will be a friends<br/>to lovers tale.</p><br/><br/><p> </p><br/><br/><p>In this contemporary romantic comedy about a small town girl<br/>who longs for a family, but has never entirely trusted she deserved a happy<br/>ending, two lonely people learn that sometimes love comes when you least expect<br/>it.</p><br/><br/><p> </p><br/><br/><p>A sexy, humorous, contemporary romance, Iris in Bloom is the<br/>perfect beach read, or a romance novel to while away a rainy afternoon. </p><br/><br/><p> </p><br/><br/><p> </p><br/><br/><p> </p>