When master cake sculptor and baker, Gerry Mitchell, opens his modern cakerie next door to her classic French pastry shop and café, Aimee Hart knows it's just one more devastating step towards losing her store. The new cake shop was going to take a huge chunk of her business at a time she could ill afford it. She would lose the Patisserie if she didn't repay her loan by the day before Thanksgiving, just six short weeks away.
It didn't help that for the first time since her almost-wedding, she was attracted to a man again. But she doesn't trust men and Mr. Next-Door-Baker Man is no exception.
When Gerry's life in California became upended both personally and professionally, he knew it was time to pack up and transfer Uncle Gerry's Cakerie back home to Connecticut.
Gerry didn't plan on finding the Patisserie owner next door to his store so attractive. He'd been too recently hurt and wasn't sure he wanted a second chance at love. But feelings of the heart cannot be denied for long. Not by him and finally, not even by Aimee.
Until, that is, Aimee discovers that she had been right all along to be wary of her new neighbor.
Will love be enough to see them through? With her Patisserie seemingly lost, and Gerry at fault, Aimee doesn't think so.
A clean and wholesome contemporary love story between a man and a woman who share a passion for baking, the delight of working on a quaint American Main Street, cats and dogs, friends and family, New England in the fall, the holiday season and eventually, one another.
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