Yet as the competition-and the ovens-heat up, Rosaline starts to realize the most delicious bakes come from the heart. Rosaline fears falling for Harry is a guaranteed recipe for disaster. Suave, well-educated, and parent-approved Alain Pope knows all the right moves to sweep her off her feet, but it’s shy electrician Harry Dobson who makes Rosaline question her long-held beliefs-about herself, her family, and her desires. His latest novel is a sugary confection that readers will devour easily and. However, more than collapsing trifles stand between Rosaline and sweet, sweet victory. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake has everything Alexis Hall fans have come to expect from an Alexis Hall story: hilarious characters, witty writing, sexy romance, and the sort of wonderful tropes irresistible to romantic comedy lovers with twists that make them unique. Winning the prize money would give her daughter the life she deserves-and Rosaline is determined to stick to the instructions. and Rosaline has just landed a spot on the nation’s most beloved baking show. Now, with a paycheck as useful as greaseproof paper and a house crumbling faster than biscuits in tea, she’s teetering on the edge of financial disaster. Rosaline Palmer has always lived by those rules-well, except for when she dropped out of college to raise her daughter, Amelie. We Are Bookish: Spring Releases to Have on Your Radarįollowing the recipe is the key to a successful bake. LGBTQ Reads: Most Anticipated Adult LGBTQAP Fiction 2021 Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Romance Novels of 2021 Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Top 10 Staff Picks

Just ask the people on the train with me, who wondered why that crazy lady was chortling so hard.Fans of Casey McQuiston, Christina Lauren, and Abby Jimenez will love this scrumptious and sweet romantic comedy from the 'dizzyingly talented writer' of Boyfriend Material ( Entertainment Weekly) I just realized that this paragraph sounds super-serious, and that is probably why I enjoyed this book so much: it’s both serious and laugh-out-loud funny. She meets two men who draw her attention, and she ends up learning important lessons about herself. The eponymous Rosaline Palmer is a single mother who dropped out of med school to have her daughter, and while her judgy parents don’t approve of her career path, she believes participating in a national baking competition will solve her problems. That said, you absolutely do not need to have watched The Great British Bake Off to appreciate how brilliantly it is portrayed in this hilarious rom-com (which, if any producers are reading, would make a great movie). With the exceptions of my mother’s strawberry shortcake and Carvel’s ice cream cake, I am not much of a cake fan, so the idea of watching people bake cakes on TV has never appealed to me despite some friends’ exhortations that I didn’t know what I was missing.

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