Baking Spirits Bright

Winning Top Holiday Baker is supposed to be the next step toward opening a bakery in Snowy Springs. The plan requires concentration, hard work and absolutely no distracting involvement with someone who can influence the result. Celebrity chef Ari Greco makes that last condition difficult. She is visiting town as a judge, and her flirtation turns a professional opportunity into a much more personal temptation. Christmas adds its own persuasive atmosphere, making a brief fling seem easier to justify than it probably should. This holiday romance follows the collision between an ambitious baker's carefully arranged future and an attraction that arrives at precisely the wrong—and most enticing—moment.