Better Than Chocolate (Life in Icicle Falls)

Better Than Chocolate (Life in Icicle Falls) by Roberts, Sheila. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780778313458.

Sweet Dreams Chocolate Company has been in the Sterling family for generations, ever since Great-Grandma Rose literally dreamed up her first fabulous recipe. But now it looks as if theyre about to lose Sweet Dreams to the bank—and that would be a disaster, not only for the family but for the town of Icicle Falls, Washington. Can Samantha, the oldest daughter and new head of the company, come up with a way to save it? After Samantha does some brainstorming with her mother and sisters, inspiration strikes. Theyll have a chocolate festival! Times running out, but the Sterling women are determined and the towns behind them, so everythings bound to go smoothly…. Or not. Events seem to be conspiring against Samantha, and her mothers attempts to help arent helping. To make matters worse, the fate of her company is in the hands of her archenemy, Blake Preston, the bank manager with the football-hero good looks. Its enough to drive her to chocolate. But Blakes also enough to convince her that (believe it or not) theres something even better than chocolate.