THE HOLIDAY BAKE-OFF

MY THOUGHTS:

Lucy Carter is happy with her life until her boyfriend unexpectedly breaks up with her because he has met someone else.  How could this happen so close to Christmas? While she is sifting through her feelings and wondering where to go from here, she receives a phone call from her Grandmother asking her to return to the small-town of Star Creek.  She has suffered a stroke and needs Lucy to help keep her bakery going through the Christmas season.  Lucy doesn’t waste any time accepting the invitation.  Every year at the Christmas festival, the bakery competes in the Christmas Bake-Off.  Lucy must rely on Will Westerly, the bakery’s expert baker.  Lucy and Will spend hours in the bakery making delicious holiday treats.  Thanks to Will, Lucy’s heart begins to mend and she is loving her time at the bakery in Star Creek.  There is such a wonderful attraction between the two of them that may just make this the magical Christmas she needed.

The Holiday Bake-Off, written by author Lindsay Detwiler, is an amazing story of family, new friends and overcoming heartbreak.  I love, love, loved this story from cover to cover.  I loved every character in this book from Lucy, to Will to Grandma, and their heartwarming personalities had me feeling like they were family.  As I stepped into the bakery, I could smell Christmas.  With the scents of gingerbread, peppermint and chocolate wafting through the air, I never wanted to leave.  The sweet romance was perfect and this small-town Christmas heartwarming story, launched me into the holiday season.  Detwiler is a new to me author that propelled herself to the top of my auto-buy author list.  This unputdownable book is one I highly recommend.  I loved it!

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DESCRIPTION:

THE HOLIDAY BAKE-OFF
Author:  Lindsay Detwiler
Publisher:  Harpeth Road Press
Publication Date: October 17, 2024
Pages: 335
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Nothing can stop Lucy Carter from chasing her dreams until her boyfriend drops the bomb and tells her he’s leaving her for someone else. Complicating things, she gets a phone call from her ailing grandmother, asking her to return to the small town of Star Creek to help out with her beloved bakery. In the name of family loyalty, Lucy is forced to leave her aspirations behind.

Putting her turmoil aside, she’s ready to help, but is she up for the task?

The bakery competes in the Christmas bake-off every year at the annual Christmas festival. Lucy doesn’t know a thing about crafting the perfect dessert, and the festival is in less than a month. She also might have learned a little faster if the bakery’s newest employee and expert baker, handsome Will Westerly, hadn’t been so tough to deal with.

As the bake-off quickly approaches, it becomes clear that broken hearts don’t heal as soon as they thought, and big decisions will have to be made once the last cupcakes are served.

ABOUT LINDSAY DETWILER

Lindsay Detwiler is a romance author and a former high school English teacher. She is also the USA Today Bestselling author of The Widow Next Door with HarperCollins UK.

Lindsay's goal with her writing is to show the power of love and the beauty of life while also instilling a true sense of realism in her work. With her novels coming from a place of honesty, she wants her fiction to resonate with readers as candid, poetic, and powerful.

Inked Hearts, released in 2017 with Hot Tree Publishing, was named a Romance Times Top Pick. Additionally, Remember When, released in April of 2017, was named a Route One Reads Romance Pick by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. She is also a USA Today Bestselling author with HarperCollins UK under the penname L.A.Detwiler.

Lindsay currently lives in her hometown of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Chad (her junior high sweetheart); their six rescued cats; and their Great Dane, Edmund.

In addition to being a huge bookworm, Lindsay's also a fan of cruelty-free makeup, coffee, chocolate, Outlander, and shopping.

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