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THE BAKER
Colorado Billionaires Book 6
BY CYNTHIA WOOLF
Blurb
The Kincaid Family Series
Meet the Kincaids.
A powerful Colorado family.
Billionaires who built an empire together.
But when danger threatens the people they love, protecting family becomes the only thing that matters.
The Baker
A Colorado Billionaires Novel
An undercover billionaire.
A stubborn baker guarding her family’s legacy.
A secret hidden inside a Denver bakery.
Megan Kincaid will do anything to protect The Velvet Oven, the beloved Denver bakery her grandmother built from nothing. It’s the last piece of her grandmother she has left—and she refuses to sell it.
Not even to billionaire CEO Ethan Marlowe. When Ethan goes undercover as a baker to discover what makes the shop so valuable, he expects a simple business deal. What he doesn’t expect is Megan.
And protecting her may matter far more than winning the deal.
Tropes in this book:
• Undercover Billionaire
• Enemies to Lovers
• Protective Hero
• Forced Proximity
• Family Business at Risk
• Sweet Romantic Suspense
Colorado Billionaires Series
1. The CEO
2. The Rancher
3. The Maverick
4. The Tycoon
5. The Artist
6. The Baker
THE BAKER
Colorado Billionaires Book 6
BY CYNTHIA WOOLF
Excerpt
Two years ago
Megan Kincaid, her auburn hair whipping around her in the breeze, stood alone as her grandmother’s casket was lowered into the ground. Everyone else left after the service, but Megan couldn’t leave her grandmother all alone.
So she watched and waited. And when it was done, she would allow herself to cry. She’d already cried for days. No one had loved her grandmother as much as Megan. That was probably why she’d left Megan the bakery.
Though she didn’t flaunt it, Megan was a billionaire, thanks to the video game she and her brothers created and she didn’t need the money from the bakery. But she loved the bakery as much as Grandma Edith had.
As she made her way back to her Trailblazer she tried to remember everything Grandma Edith said.
“They’ll come,” she’d said. “Men with money, who think they know better than you. And when they do,” Grandma had smiled. “You’ll say no.”
“Whether they offer you a dollar or a million dollars, you’ll say no. The Velvet Oven is a neighborhood institution. It’s meant to be a neighborhood shop. It doesn’t need to be any bigger than it is. Do you understand?”
Megan looked up at the sky. “I understand Grandma. The Velvet Oven will never belong to anyone but a Kincaid. I swear it.”
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Present day
In his office, Ethan Marlowe read the sheet of paper in front of him, then slapped it on the ever growing pile on his desk. Ethan had built his food empire on patterns…in the market and in the behavior of people.
Every artisan bakery he sought had capitulated to his offers, one way or another. Some negotiated, some just sold outright at the first figure he’d sent their way. Fear often softened the resistance, and his money ridded the sellers of any sentiment. Time and enough zeros wore down the principles that sounded noble in theory and yet crumbled, nonetheless.
He’d first learned this on the football field—how enough pressure cracked even the best defenses. Then he’d learned the theory again in the business world, where he could use leverage and timing rather than brute force and strength.
This process had always worked. He’d always won and received what he wanted…in the end.
Yet, the practice hadn’t worked on one. Only one.
The Velvet Oven.
One bakery location. It sat just outside prime downtown Denver real estate that he wanted more than anything. The shop had a loyal customer base. It had been there for fifty years. Long before the current building explosion had pushed real estate values through the roof. The owner operated with no debt that he’d been able to find and had absolutely no interest in selling.
He flipped through the file, continuing to read the notes from his agents. He’d sent several, each one better than the last, and they were all very good at what they did. Everyone had been turned down. Not for sale.
He read on.
Owner is Megan Kincaid. She inherited the bakery from her grandmother. Ah, sentimental reasons. Probably good memories, too.
She has declined every offer with no counterproposal.
Simply says, not for sale.
Maybe she is just pushing up the price. But his current offer was three times what the bakery was worth and his people had all received a polite, “No, thank you.”
He inhaled deeply and exhaled through his nose. Every other artisan bakery in Denver was his—all nine of them. He wanted them all. He wanted the monopoly to belong to Marlowe Foods. The words stared back at him. “No, thank you.”
About Author Cynthia Woolf…
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Sounds like a good read looking forward to reading this author is new to me