Brush Creek Cowboys Complete Romance Collection by Liz Isaacson

Author:Liz Isaacson [Isaacson, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works

Erin woke the next morning at three a.m. She groaned as she pulled herself from the warmth of her bed and went to brush her teeth. Half an hour later, she descended the steps from her second-story apartment to the bakery below. Shirley had already arrived, and she had flour up to her elbows.

She hummed as she kneaded, and Erin wished she was a morning person like her aunt. “Morning,” she said with a yawn. Erin reached for the black apron hanging on the wall and tied it around her waist. “Am I on cookies again today?”

“Yes, dear.” Shirley flashed her a smile and continued kneading.

Erin could make cookies. She was slowly learning the other things, but her aunt still didn’t quite trust Erin to take over the bigger items like pies and tarts. That was the goal, as Shirley’s husband had been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and she wanted to be home with him more.

The bell rang out front and a moment later, Doug arrived in the back. “Morning, ladies.”

Another morning person. Erin lifted her hand in greeting as she set the huge bowl in the mixer stand. Doug owned and operated the bakery half of the store, offering breads and rolls, doughnuts and cookies, cupcakes and birthday cakes. He had more business than he could handle, and his mother had been doing the cookies and doughnuts, along with her pies and fruit tarts, for a couple of years.

The goal was for Doug and Erin to partner on the shop, with Erin eventually taking over all Shirley did with the pie shop while helping with whatever Doug needed as well. Now, if Erin could do more than make a decent batch of chocolate chip cookies, the plan would be foolproof.

She slopped flour down the front of her apron as she attempted to weigh it and tried not to look up to see if Shirley or Doug had seen her blunder. She felt like a fish out of water, flopping around, trying to figure out how to survive.

It was a good offer, one that would ensure Erin had a way to provide for her children long-term. She’d been praying for something that would give her the freedom to be available for her children while still having the money she needed.

So when her aunt had called, Erin had jumped at the offer. Packed up her family in Vernal and moved them almost an hour northwest to the tiny town of Brush Creek she used to love to visit as a child.

Over the course of the next three hours, she made four varieties of cookies—double chocolate chip, cranberry and white chocolate macadamia nut, oatmeal raisin, and snickerdoodle—stocked the trays and set up the front of the bakery, and finally she switched out her dirty apron for a clean one before she unlocked the front door.

A line of about a dozen people waited, and she welcomed them with her warmest smile though she felt bone-tired already. Staying at Tess’s until eleven was a huge mistake.

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