In a Jam
Kate Canterbary's In a Jam is a steamy contemporary romance set in the fictional New England seaside town of Friendship, where former Boston pastry chef Shay Zucconi has retreated after a publicly disastrous broken engagement. Shay arrives in town pretending she has come to settle her late aunt's affairs, but she is really hiding from the wreckage of her former life, including a fiance who turned out to be a fraud and a family who has trouble forgiving her for trusting him. Friendship's resident grump, a chronically irritable handyman named Noah Barlowe, is assigned to fix up the inherited house, and his refusal to be charmed by Shay's nervous baking and self deprecating humor only makes him more interesting. Canterbary writes in the same warm, banter heavy register that powers her Talbott's Cove and Walsh series, balancing on the page heat with quietly serious portraits of grief, sibling reconciliation, and what it means to start over in your thirties without pretending the previous decade did not happen.
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A burnt-out city woman moves to a small New England town to start over with a small business. Her cranky next-door neighbor takes one look at her plans and decides to be a problem.
Yes. In a Jam contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Kate Canterbary writes contemporary romance with extensive steam and small-town settings.
Yes. In a Jam contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Kate Canterbary writes contemporary romance with extensive steam and small-town settings.
Yes. In a Jam is part of Kate Canterbary's Talbott's Cove series, a connected small-town Maine romance series with overlapping characters.
In a Jam was written by Kate Canterbary, published in 2022 by Blackstone Audio, Incorporated.
In a Jam is 472 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, In a Jam takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
In a Jam is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
