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The Making of Sweet Roots

Thank you for joining Heidi Alert! Here is the story behind my novel: the cocoa estate where I got married, the trip to Zürich that changed how I saw chocolate, and how I found my cover artist on a chocolate bar wrapper. Chapter 1 is waiting for you at the end.

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What’s inside

The story before the story

Where it started

A cocoa estate in Lopinot, Trinidad, a wedding in its amphitheater, and the question that wouldn’t let me go.

What’s real, what’s fiction

Meet Kola and the Cocoa Crew, and see which parts of her world you could visit tomorrow.

Chapter 1

Six weeks to save the estate. Read how Kola’s story begins, before almost anyone else.

Set the mood while you read

Press play on the Sweet Roots playlist, and come say hello on Instagram.

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