Twice Shy by Sophia Sinclair

A Sprinkling of Magic

Catarina lives alone and works alone, and she likes it that way. Her only romance ended with such pain that she’s convinced she’s meant to be single forever. She lives quietly above the small upholstery shop she runs in downtown Fairview.
One day, a drop-dead gorgeous man walks into her upholstery shop. Remy is opening an ice cream parlor down the street, and he’s stopped in to check out the ugly old sofa Catarina is working on. As it happens, the sofa played a storied role in his parents’ marriage. He tells her all about it over cups of tea, and afterward, Catarina peeks into his cup. Her Romany (Gypsy) grandmother taught her the art of reading tea leaves when she was a child, and Catarina immediately knows her grandmother would have made much of what she sees in Remy’s cup. But Catarina doesn’t take what the tea leaves say seriously. Fortune-telling is hardly scientific, after all.
Catarina’s relationship with Remy sets off complications for several people around them, including her life-long friend Tanya and Remy’s twin brother, Rhys. The situation becomes even more complex when a young girl Catarina didn’t even know existed shows up at her door, having left the old country to meet the branch of her family she found through a DNA test. Veda still follows the old ways, and she and Tanya are convinced Catarina and Remy are meant to be together.
Catarina is not so sure. Remy has a secret he didn’t share, and when Catarina learns about it, she doubts whether she should have taken the risk of another relationship. Can he win back her trust?