TANNIE VILJOEN SE KOEKIES

Leah Marais didn’t come to Kittyfontein looking for a fresh start. She was looking for somewhere to sleep.

Instead, she finds a tiny Cape town where everybody knows everybody, privacy is apparently optional, and Tannie Viljoen se Koekies needs someone who knows what she’s doing in a bakery.

Then there’s Danie Viljoen.

Forty-two, stubborn, infuriatingly capable, and accompanied almost everywhere by Feisty, his fawn Bull Terrier, Danie has a life built around routine, responsibility and keeping things exactly where they belong. Leah, with her battered Corolla and a life that has spectacularly failed to go according to plan, was never supposed to become part of it.

But Kittyfontein has ideas of its own.

Between early mornings at the bakery, small-town gossip, unexpected friendships, a dog who makes her loyalties very clear, and an attraction that becomes increasingly difficult to ignore, Leah begins building a life she never planned.

The problem with finding somewhere you belong is that eventually, you have something worth losing.

Tannie Viljoen se Koekies is a warm, funny and steamy South African small-town romance about starting over, falling in love when you weren’t looking for it, and discovering that home isn’t always where you expected to find it.