Welcome to the Land of Bourbon and Bluegrass...Welcome to Bourbon Springs, Kentucky...

Harriet Hensley usually enjoys the work that comes with being an attorney for Bourbon Springs’ most important business, Old Garnet Distillery. But when the distillery owners ask her to work on a crucial history project designed to burnish the distillery's application for National Historic Landmark status, Harriet isn’t excited. Her lack of enthusiasm isn't because she thinks the work will be dull. It’s because of the guy with whom she’s going to have to work.

Goose Davenport, a cousin of the distillery owners and now an important employee at Old Garnet, has been known for years as the local hothead, the crazy guy who seemed to hide behind his father’s badge—the late former Craig County Sheriff Fuzzy Davenport. Yet a few years earlier, Harriet, the local Little-Miss-Perfect and former Miss BourbonDaze, had a taste of that wild side of the man—and found she liked it quite a bit. But despite their mutual attraction, fate denied them the chance to see what happened next, and they kept the fact of their encounter—and feelings—to themselves.

Working with Goose presents new professional, personal, and legal challenges, and feelings suppressed for years boil to the surface. He’s enchanted by the woman he never thought he’d attain, and she’s delighted to learn about Goose’s softer side—as well as his deep knowledge and love of Old Garnet which astounds her.

Yet within that knowledge is buried a deep vein of resentment that stretches back nearly a hundred years, far back into the history of the brand and family. This lingering bitterness threatens not only Harriet and Goose’s new love, but Old Garnet itself.

Cedar and Cinnamon is the fifth book in the Bourbon Springs Series, a nine-book series of smooth, sensual, sexy, slow-burn contemporary romances set amidst the lush and rolling Land of Bourbon and Bluegrass of central Kentucky.

The sixth Bourbon Springs book, Distilled Heat, will be released in winter 2016.