Samantha Rizzo knows how to survive a shift at Austin's most chaotic natural foods market: keep her head down, her shelves perfect, and her patience intact while customers interrogate the spiritual trauma of peas, the emotional well-being of kombucha, and the aura of gluten-free granola.Brian Carter is the quiet stockroom guy with broad shoulders, a dry sense of humor, and a talent for appearing exactly when Samantha needs backup. Together, they create a secret language of ridiculous customer archetypes, stolen break-room snacks, and laughter sharp enough to cut through fluorescent lights and exhaustion.But beneath Brian's steady competence is a past he refuses to talk about. A scar he hides. A fear of touch, fire, and anything that feels too much like losing control. Samantha sees the tenderness he tries to bury, but every time they get close, Brian pulls away—leaving her to wonder if the man who can read her every mood will ever trust her enough to let himself be known.When a stockroom kiss turns their friendship into something far more dangerous, Samantha and Brian must decide whether love is worth the risk of being seen completely—mess, scars, kombucha trauma, and all.Funny, intimate, and deeply tender, Stockroom Kisses and Kombucha is a workplace romance about two guarded people discovering that sometimes the safest place in the world is beside the person who makes you laugh when everything hurts.Grab Stockroom Kisses and Kombucha today and fall for a romance that proves love can bloom anywhere—even under fluorescent lights, between cases of spiritually compromised kombucha.

Samantha Rizzo knows how to survive a shift at Austin's most chaotic natural foods market: keep her head down, her shelves perfect, and her patience intact while customers interrogate the spiritual trauma of peas, the emotional well-being of kombucha, and the aura of gluten-free granola.Brian Carter is the quiet stockroom guy with broad shoulders, a dry sense of humor, and a talent for appearing exactly when Samantha needs backup. Together, they create a secret language of ridiculous customer archetypes, stolen break-room snacks, and laughter sharp enough to cut through fluorescent lights and exhaustion.But beneath Brian's steady competence is a past he refuses to talk about. A scar he hides. A fear of touch, fire, and anything that feels too much like losing control. Samantha sees the tenderness he tries to bury, but every time they get close, Brian pulls away—leaving her to wonder if the man who can read her every mood will ever trust her enough to let himself be known.When a stockroom kiss turns their friendship into something far more dangerous, Samantha and Brian must decide whether love is worth the risk of being seen completely—mess, scars, kombucha trauma, and all.Funny, intimate, and deeply tender, Stockroom Kisses and Kombucha is a workplace romance about two guarded people discovering that sometimes the safest place in the world is beside the person who makes you laugh when everything hurts.Grab Stockroom Kisses and Kombucha today and fall for a romance that proves love can bloom anywhere—even under fluorescent lights, between cases of spiritually compromised kombucha.