Chocolate, Coffee,
Cream & Crackers

About the Story

Conner Calloway made a promise the day her family’s world fell apart: she would hold her sisters together—no matter the cost.

Seven years later, that promise looks like this:

• One struggling but beloved small-town coffee shop.
• One former teen movie star desperate for a comeback.
• One former Olympic hopeful confined to a wheelchair, wielding a paintbrush—and a razor-sharp tongue.
• One honorary sister who may be mute, but is secretly the most powerful voice in the room.
• And one goat with absolutely no respect for personal boundaries.

Conner has sacrificed everything to keep the peace—including her own dreams, her love of horses, and any hope of romance.

Then Luke Donovan arrives.

A charming cowboy forced off his family land, Luke is starting over in Cook County. He steps in to help his best friend—the Calloway family’s long-suffering agent—and even offers to invest in a movie adaptation that could relaunch Corrine’s career.

There’s just one small complication.

Luke insists on meeting the elusive author behind the beloved novel they plan to adapt… and that’s a real problem for the person secretly holding the pen.

As if that weren’t enough, Luke has purchased the horse ranch directly across from the Calloway property—placing him squarely in the shadow of a tragedy Conner has never fully faced.

Now secrets are wobbling, lies are lingering, and Conner’s carefully controlled world is one meet-cute away from total chaos.

Because when a woman who doesn’t believe she deserves happiness meets a man determined to build a new future, something has to give.

Chocolate, Coffee, Cream and Crackers is a heartfelt, humorous, and layered with sisterhood, second chances, and slow-burn romance, this is a story about guilt and grace, truth and forgiveness—and the courage it takes to let the wind blow your hair, and your life, in a brand-new direction.

Interwoven Themes

The Calloway sisters’ story stands firmly on its own.

Yet the world they inhabit continues to evolve.

Some doors open quietly.
Some places become crossroads.

If you wish to follow where familiar faces and spaces reappear next, join the conversation.

Ready to Begin?

Available as paperback and digital book.
Signed copies available at Camden Art Shoppes, SC