Two bakeries. One birthday cake. Zero chance they survive it without falling in love.
For three summers, Lucy Pell has run her late grandmother's blueberry bakery on Wharf Street, and for three summers the man across the street has been driving her up the wall. Sam Hartigan fries doughnuts in a converted bait shed, aims a daily whiteboard pun squarely at her front door, and somehow makes a cider doughnut that tastes exactly like her grandmother's long-lost recipe.
Then the town council orders them to bake a twelve-foot cake for Saltbox Harbor's 250th birthday. Together, or not at all.
Their truce lasts four minutes. Then a summer storm floods Lucy's kitchen, and the only ovens left on Wharf Street belong to Sam.
Sharing a kitchen at three-thirty every morning, Lucy starts to see the man behind the whiteboard. But Sam has been keeping a secret since the day he arrived: a red cookie tin, twenty years of letters, and a promise to the grandmother Lucy still misses every day. And the Fourth of July is coming whether the cake is ready or not.
The Saltbox Bakery Truce is the second book in the Saltbox Harbor series: a sweet, clean, closed-door small-town romance with a found-family town, a matchmaking caf owner, a twelve-foot birthday cake, and a happily ever after.