Candles, Chaos & Complicated Timing: A Romantic Comedy

When Dalton's winter market loses power an hour before opening, Dennis Wong is already in crisis mode. As the town's overworked IT and systems manager, Dennis is used to holding things together with limited time, old wiring, and sheer stubborn competence. What he is not used to is Chadwick "Wick" Cartwright-Dalton's beeswax candle maker-turning a full electrical failure into an ambiance plan with jars of flame, emotional support tea, and entirely too much confidence. Wick knows how to keep people calm. Dennis knows how to keep systems running. Unfortunately, the market needs both. As the outage spreads, Wick's candle stall becomes unofficial headquarters, Mick turns the pub into a charging station, Maggie starts treating the blackout like a romance plot, and Dennis finds himself working side by side with a man who is equal parts helpful, infuriating, warm, and impossible to ignore. Wick thinks Dennis sees him as decorative. Dennis assumes Wick thrives on chaos. And because both men are already stretched too thin, every almost-moment between them seems to arrive at exactly the wrong time. But under winter lights, candle glow, and one very determined small town, they may finally discover that bad timing is not the same thing as the wrong person. Candles, Chaos & Complicated Timing is a cozy, funny small-town M/M romantic comedy featuring a winter market blackout, a quietly exhausted systems manager, an artisan candle maker with strong opinions about mood as infrastructure, public interference disguised as help, and a town that absolutely refuses to mind its business. Perfect for readers who love small-town romance, opposites who are secretly perfect for each other, competence kink, community chaos, and hard-earned happy endings.

Pagina's: 366, Paperback, Independently published