The Butcher's Resolve: A Small-Town Grumpy Sunshine Romance

By Vivian Harper

The Butcher only trusts logic. The Dreamer is all heart. Their forbidden partnership could save her community... or ruin his last remaining legacy.

Silas Hawthorne, the town's famously grumpy butcher, is running out of time. After his family's betrayal and financial ruin, he built a life defined by cold control and isolation. Now, a massive corporate chain is aggressively trying to buy his smokehouse lot-the last piece of Hawthorne land Silas can truly protect. His only recourse is logic: take the money and be safe, or fight and risk losing everything.

Ella Harper is the sunshine soul of the Weaver's Flow Cooperative, and she needs Silas's land to save the local community from the corporate threat. When Silas rejects her idealistic proposals, Ella shifts tactics, proposing a high-stakes partnership: Silas must teach her his family's secret recipes in a forced proximity apprenticeship in his isolated butcher shop.

Trapped together for long, intense hours, their clash of chaos and control quickly ignites an undeniable, forbidden chemistry. But as they work side-by-side, Silas realizes Ella isn't just a distraction-she's the only one who sees the truth about his father's past, cracking the rigid armor around his heart.

With the corporate deadline looming, Silas must choose:

Accept the safe, clean cash that will buy his independence but destroy Ella's dream and his family's legacy.

Surrender to the terrifying, chaotic love of the woman who challenges him and risk the sentimental ruin he swore he'd never repeat.

The Butcher's Resolve is a standalone, small-town grumpy sunshine romance with high emotional stakes, sizzling forced proximity, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3PNG2W3
• ISBN13: 9798275802559
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"