Two for Tea — Jan McDaniel

The new owner of Aunt Phoebe's Tea Room certainly isn't going to win the loyalty of his employees by barging in and insulting the very goods that his late great-aunt considered the life-blood of her store. And Alyssa Miles, the tea shop's manager and good friend to Phoebe, feels powerless to do anything but stay out of Jonathan Lockery's way as he makes the dreaded changes she is sure will come.

But Alyssa doesn't count on Jonathan winding up as a guest at her mother's hotel, or that a vulnerable, needy man is buried beneath Jonathan's city-hardened exterior…