A small-town bakery, a mysterious newcomer, and a summer neither of them will forget.
Four years away taught Hope Sullivan big-city marketing tricks. Now back in her coastal hometown, she’s ready to apply every lesson to the family bakery’s biggest week of the year. Only someone is missing from her spreadsheets: a capable partner to catch runaway dough and runaway hearts.
Theo Masters arrived in Tideport with nothing but a suitcase and a scarred past. As festival coordinator, he’s used to fixing broken things—until he meets Hope, whose kindness cracks his carefully built walls.
When flour flies and sparks ignite, can Hope and Theo knead their differences into something lasting? Or will they face summer’s end with only crumbs of what might have been?