Analyn Sanchez can handle the long hours and arrogant clients that come with her job as a crisis management associate at Denver’s largest publicity firm. The high-powered job, expensive condo, and designer wardrobe are all part of her plan to prove to her family that her life choices haven’t been in vain. But when she’s asked to cover up a client’s misdeeds with serious moral and legal ramifications, she can no longer sacrifice her conscience for her career . . . and the cost is no less than her job.
Ever since a devastating climbing accident in South America eight months ago, and a bad decision that dried up his sponsorships, professional rock climber Bryan Shaw has found himself at similar loose ends. When the opportunity to buy a coffee farm in Colombia arises, he jumps on it–only to discover his wandering ways have left him utterly unprepared to run a business.
When Bryan returns home and offers Ana a role in his company as a solution to both their problems, she’s desperate enough to consider working with the far-too-flippant and far-too-handsome climber, even though he’s the polar opposite of her type A nature. As they delve deeper into the business, however, she begins to suspect there’s much more to Bryan than she’s given him credit for . . . and that sometimes the best plans are the ones you never see coming.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Solid Grounds Coffee Company Book Author: Carla Laureano What do you like about this book:
"For the first time in a long time, she was actually looking at herself."
But it's best to start at the beginning, when Analyn Sanchez carefully hid herself behind a successful career of disguising high powered clients who needed to spin away their mistakes and indicretions. However, when she refuses to compromise moral and legal boundaries, Ana is granted a generous paid leave from her high salaried position in one of Denver's most prestigious publicity firms. She now has time on her hands, a plethora of marketing skills and a friend with a start up fair trade coffee roasting company. . . . is it a coincidence or divine intervention?
Bryan Shaw's life has undergone a gargantuan metamorphisis following an horrific climbing accident and subsequent loss of a professional climbing career. After a gut level change of priorities and impulsive investment into a Columbian coffee farm, he's back in Denver to re-connect and plunge into the roasting business. But he needs help, and Ana seems interested enough to help him. However, it's soon evident to both of them that there is another kind of "slow roasting" going on between the surface. More than likely, it could never work, but what if it could?
"The Solid Grounds Coffee Company" beautifully illustrates what it's like to stand on the promises of God. . . . . making all things new, doing exceedingly above what we ask or think, old things passing away, nothing being impossible with God . . . life is usually messy, when it's real; poised on the brink of free falling is usually where we find "solid ground". Readers will discover pieces of themselves through-out this lovely story . . . while they are enviously imagining all those coffee tastings!
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