title: Ms. V's Chocolate Tea Room
author: Vicki Stokes
description: Vicki Stokes lives in west Tennessee where she surrounds herself with family and as many shoes as her closet can bear. She is at work on her next book.
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  # All’s Fair in Love and Chocolate
  
  
  A Marietta Chocolate Wars Romance
  
  
  Amy Andrews
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Chapter Six
  
  
  Viv and Robbie were busy serving customers when Clementine entered the store.
  Viv didn’t see her come in or really even register the ding of the bell,
  engrossed as she was in the conversation with her customer over the merits of
  the different bath bombs. All she knew was that suddenly the whole shop had
  gone quiet apart from the two of them and she glanced up to find a woman
  striding in her direction, like she was on a mission, people parting before
  her like the Red Sea.
  
  
  “Hi,” she said with a smile, as she pulled up at the counter, sticking out her
  hand. “You must be Vivian?”
  
  
  Viv heard the shudder of a collective indrawn breath and looked around the
  nervous faces of her customers for a beat before saying, “Viv, yes.” And she
  shook hands noticing the cute, knitted ear-flap hat with kitten ears. It
  suited this woman but it _wasn’t_