Layla's Love — Ava Bleu

Romance isn't for the faint of heart, and it's not for Layla Smith, either.Who's got time for romance when there's Layla's Gourmet Pizza Shop, a charming restaurant that won't run itself?And then there's the growing pressure from the newly developed New Ivyhurst community members, determined to make her declare loyalty and allegiance to the new town over the old.Layla just wants to make pizza.And … she might just want to sample a taste of Raymond; handsome businessman and Wednesday night customer, Mr. Double Cheese, himself. Raymond; tastier than all the toppings of her very best pizzas put together.With loyal workers Darryl and Lucas pressuring her to live her best life, and Layla just trying to live one day to the next, all she knows for sure is that love might just be the most dangerous thing of all.So it's a darn shame it's creeping up on her all the same.Layla's Love is approximately 25K words; it's a sweet, standalone, HEA novella. It can be read on its own but it's much better read in order with the series.