Ink & Sugar ✨

A slow-burn strangers-to-lovers romance where warmth is found in the quietest moments-and love is baked into the smallest gestures.

Every morning at 7:15 AM, Ayaan Roy walks into Sugar & Spice Café, orders the same black coffee, and sits in the same corner booth with a book. Saira Mehta, the café's soft-spoken owner, knows his routine by heart-until one day, she decides to break it.

Instead of his usual, she serves him a cinnamon latte with a dusting of cocoa, a silent challenge in her warm brown eyes.

He stares at it. Then at her.

"I didn't order this."

"You never order anything else," she says, wiping flour from her apron. "Thought you might like a change."

Ayaan, a man of quiet words and buried poetry, isn't used to change. But as seasons shift and their encounters grow longer-filled with shared books, accidental touches, and the way he starts calling her "Sugar" just to see her blush-he realizes he's craving more than just caffeine.

Saira, however, has spent years pouring love into pastries but locking away her own heart. When Ayaan murmurs, "You fill this place with warmth, but do you ever let someone do the same for you?" she doesn't have an answer.

Tropes & Vibes:
🍂 Slow Burn | ☕ Found Family | 📖 Quiet Love vs. Loud Heart
🍁 "Who hurt you?" | ✨ Soft Intimacy | 🥮 Food as Love Language

Think: A cozy autumn evening, ink-stained fingers brushing over flour-dusted ones, and the quiet thrill of realizing the person you've been waiting for has been there all along.

For fans of: The Stationery Shop, Love & Other Words, and People We Meet on Vacation-with the sweetness of The Great British Bake Off and the soul of a handwritten love letter.