While serving baked Alaska at the posh club where she is the pastry chef, Olivia catches sight of her married lover with his wife, loses her balance, drops the baked Alaska, and starts a fire. Fleeing the scene of the disaster she turns to her friend Hannah in Guthrie, Vermont. Hannah, not for the first time, comes to her rescue and Olivia finds a job as the pastry chef at the Sugar Maple Inn.Used to being on her own Olivia gradually finds herself settling in. The work is demanding but fun, the people she works with supportive (except maybe for the Inn's owner), and then there's Martin...
Loaded with descriptions of baking guaranteed to make your mouth water and your stomach growl this book is a fun read. The plot may be a little predictable but the characters are fun and sympathetic and worth rooting for.
This is the author's first book and I'm looking forward to her next one.
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