The Sweet Spot

Kayla Valentine is days away from losing everything.

Her family bakery, The Sweet Spot, has survived for three generations on butter, sugar, and stubborn hope, but an eviction notice gives her sixty days to pay crushing arrears or shut its doors for good. Her pastries taste fine, her customers are kind, and none of it is enough. Fear has crept into her dough, and the bakery can feel it.

Then the storm hits.

Out of the rain walks Sebastian Garnier: infamous, disgraced, and unmistakable. Once the most feared culinary genius in the world, Sebastian vanished after a scandal destroyed his career and reputation. Now he's hiding in a forgotten town, desperate for anonymity, carrying nothing but his knives, his rage, and his brilliance.

In exchange for a room above the bakery and complete secrecy, he will rebuild The Sweet Spot from the inside out. Kayla knows it's a deal with the devil. Sebastian is demanding, ruthless, and impossible to please. He tears down her kitchen, her habits, and her confidence with equal precision.

As the bakery thrives, something darker and sweeter simmers beneath the surface. Long nights, flour-dusted hands, heated arguments that blur into desire. Sebastian's control clashes with Kayla's chaos, until tension turns incendiary and rules collapse entirely.