This is a delightful rivals-to-lovers romance set in a Brooklyn bakery, run by our female main character Avital Cohen. She returned home to run her family's kosher bakery because of medical issues that impact every facet of her life. So, with her photography career on hold, in walks the male main character, Ethan Lippmann, whose family is the archnemesis of the Cohens. Naturally, with forced proximity, the sparks fly.
I love reading books about cultures and customs unfamiliar to me. And I rooted for Avital and Ethan.
From the publisher:
Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love…
Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants—woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It’s all she can do to manage her family’s kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing.
She needs hired help.
And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit.
Except Ethan isn’t there to work—he’s undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though Lippmann’s is a household name when it comes to mass-produced kosher baked goods, they don’t have the charm of Avital’s bakery. Or her grandfather’s world-famous pumpkin spice babka recipe.
As they bake side by side, Ethan soon finds himself more interested in Avital than in stealing family secrets, especially as he helps her find the chronic pain relief—and pleasure—she’s been missing.
But perfecting the recipe for romance calls for leaving out the lies…even if coming clean means risking everything.
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