{"id":35042,"date":"2025-09-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35042"},"modified":"2025-08-17T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:35:41","slug":"newrelease-savoring-christmas-by-tess-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35042","title":{"rendered":"#newrelease &#8211; Savoring Christmas by Tess Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/81biPshqcyL._SY425_.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35043\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/81biPshqcyL._SY425_.jpg?resize=276%2C425\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/81biPshqcyL._SY425_.jpg?w=276 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/81biPshqcyL._SY425_.jpg?resize=195%2C300 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">A lost bet. A grumpy lawyer.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"a-text-bold\">A Christmas cooking class with the woman he\u2019s secretly wanted since the day she came to town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After losing everything in a\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Ponzi scheme<\/span>, chef\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Mia Bianchi<\/span>\u00a0trades New York skyscrapers for her grandmother\u2019s log cabin restaurant in\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Sugarville Grove<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to start fresh, she hosts a\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">holiday cooking class<\/span>\u2014partly to share her love of food, partly to make friends in her new town.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Logan Hayes doesn\u2019t lose bets\u2026<\/span>\u00a0except the one that lands him in Mia\u2019s class.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s admired her quietly for months, but now he\u2019s standing beside her at the stove, flour on his shirt, realizing she\u2019s even more irresistible up close.<\/p>\n<p>Each lesson brings more\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">banter, more warmth<\/span>, and more moments neither of them want to end.<br \/>\nAnd when they team up to give a struggling family the Christmas they deserve, the\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">grumpy lawyer<\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">guarded chef<\/span>\u00a0find themselves at the center of something bigger than they ever imagined\u2014<span class=\"a-text-bold\">community, connection, and maybe even love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">A slow-burn, clean and wholesome holiday romance filled with small-town charm, holiday magic, and a love that will warm your heart long after the last page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/47zCx22\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lost bet. A grumpy lawyer. A Christmas cooking class with the woman he\u2019s secretly wanted since the day she came to town. After losing everything in a\u00a0Ponzi scheme, chef\u00a0Mia Bianchi\u00a0trades New York skyscrapers for her grandmother\u2019s log cabin restaurant in\u00a0Sugarville Grove. Determined to start fresh, she hosts a\u00a0holiday cooking class\u2014partly to share her love &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#newrelease &#8211; Savoring Christmas by Tess Thompson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-97c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35044,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions\/35044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}