Are You Ready for Some Chocolate?
My long running book–filled with recipes and deliciousness of Jane Austen-esque romance–has a new cover.
Voila! Chocolate and Conversation! And it’s only 99-cents right now to celebrate its happy new book cover. (Cover art by Dillon McGaughey, CMI, 2017.)
Jane Austen’s PERSUASION, set in a chocolate shop in Salt Lake City
In case you haven’t heard about this book (it’s been out since 2007, but I’ve actually never done any promotion of it), here’s a little blurb.
Frothy little Jane Austen adaptation: Persuasion set in a chocolate shop in Salt Lake City
Ranked in the Kindle top 10 for LDS Fiction
Suddenly unemployed at age 31 and not married, Susannah puts her savings and her future on the line to open up downtown Salt Lake City’s first all-chocolate café, The Chocolate Bar. It all starts out sweetly when Susannah catches the interest of the city’s most eligible bachelor, a charismatic attorney who pursues her relentlessly.
But then her first love, John Wentworth, returns to town and her heart goes sideways. He’s rich. He’s handsome. And he’s got intentions of marrying anyone but Susannah.
Chocolate and Conversation is a light and frothy, chocolate-filled romp adapted from Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
Filled with to-die-for recipes, hilarious situations, and swoony kisses, this delicious romance throws a wholesome Mormon girl into an impossible love triangle between her longing for her former Mr. Right and her Mr. Maybe-Right-for-Now.
Don’t think too much. Just read and escape. In fact, enjoy it with a cup of hot chocolate.
Here are a few little reviews.
“A delicious treat. …Light, modern, and funny. It has the bright, quick dialogue of chick lit, but has a deeper side, an older heroine, and is kinder to the male species. Women of all ages will love it, and I suspect more than one male will chuckle his way through it as well…. The recipes are worth the price of the book alone!” – Jennie Hansen, Meridian Magazine
“Another great CLEAN LDS romance!! I like ‘easy reads’ in between the more in-depth ones. This is great for that! Just sit back and enjoy the story without thinking too much!” –Laurie, Goodreads
“Personality!! That’s the word that came to mind as I read this modern day adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion! As I finished the book and closed the cover at 2:00 am, I gave a satisfied sigh! That was good! Every chapter ends with some sort of chocolate recipe. I think I gained 5 lbs. just reading the book! 
