Eliza Fairchild

Two rival bakers. One shared kitchen. Six weeks until the Harvest Festival. Sophie Caldwell likes order, routine, and knowing exactly where everything belongs. Caldwell's Bakery is her family legacy, her responsibility, and the one place in Lantern Lane where everything usually makes sense. Then a water main disaster shuts down her kitchen. Across Baker's Row, Luke Harrow is facing the same problem.
His bakery is also out of commission, the Harvest Festival is approaching fast, and the only workable solution is the one neither of them would have chosen: sharing the Grange Hall commercial kitchen until repairs are complete. Sophie and Luke have spent years as friendly rivals, separated by forty-two feet of small-town history, inherited expectations, and competing pastry cases. But sharing ovens, prep counters, delivery schedules, refrigerator space, and early-morning coffee makes it harder to keep their rivalry neatly in place.
As the town watches, the Festival deadline approaches, and an unexpected collaboration begins to blur the line between competition and connection, Sophie must decide whether protecting her carefully organized life is worth missing the sweetest risk she never planned to take.