From Lattes to Love
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Jade has always believed that stories can change what happens in real rooms. As a freelance writer and neighborhood advocate, she's made a life out of translating dry planning documents into human stakes. Harbor Street Café is her unofficial office-a warm, slightly worn coffee shop where the barista knows her order and the regulars have become background characters in the essays she writes about gentrification and the cost of "progress." For Jade, Harbor is proof that some places in the city still belong to the people who live there. Beck has one metric for success: the door keeps opening. Hi...
Jade has always believed that stories can change what happens in real rooms. As a freelance writer and neighborhood advocate, she's made a life out of translating dry planning documents into human stakes. Harbor Street Café is her unofficial office-a warm, slightly worn coffee shop where the barista knows her order and the regulars have become background characters in the essays she writes about gentrification and the cost of "progress." For Jade, Harbor is proof that some places in the city still belong to the people who live there. Beck has one metric for success: the door keeps opening. His café isn't shiny, but it's alive. Nurses drift in after night shifts, students spread out notes over chipped tables, older neighbors sit by the window and watch the street unfold. Harbor Street Café is everything he owns and almost everything he is. So when a well-funded coffee pilot backed by a national brand opens a branch just up the block, promising "community-focused innovation" and higher foot traffic, Beck hears what no one is willing to say aloud: higher rent, different customers, and a landlord with new leverage. When Jade agrees to consult on the pilot, she walks a tightrope between loyalty and opportunity. At first, it looks simple: help the company listen better, protect Harbor where she can, cash the check that makes her precarious finances less terrifying. But the deeper she goes, the more she realizes that her words will not just shape one shop-they'll become a template for other streets just like this. Then the company offers her a director role, a permanent seat at the table where these decisions are made. The job would give her money she's never had, influence she's always wanted, and the chance to build safeguards into projects from the inside. It would also mean stepping directly into the machine she has spent years resisting. As landlord meetings become real rent increases, and Jade's temporary role turns into a contract full of clauses she doesn't fully trust, the one constant is Beck. Their friendship, built on years of coffee refills, sarcasm, and shared worry over the fate of the block, starts to tilt into something more intimate. It happens under burnt-out street lamps after long shifts, in late-night arguments where he admits he's afraid she'll outgrow the street and she admits she's terrified of what power will ask her to become. Love does not solve their problems, but it forces them to be more honest about what they want-and what they refuse to trade away. From Lattes to Love is a contemporary friends-to-lovers romance set in the uneasy space where small businesses and big brands collide. It's about a woman who learns that stepping into a bigger role doesn't have to mean abandoning her principles, a man who discovers that accepting help doesn't make his work any less his own, and a neighborhood that refuses to be a backdrop. If you love slow-burn romance, found-family cafés, and stories where the characters argue about rent and ethics as fiercely as they do about their feelings, this novel will feel like settling into your favorite corner table and staying long after closing.
