Sometimes the sweetest second chances rise in God’s perfect timing.
She quit her career to open a bakery. He caught her when she almost walked into traffic. Neither of them planned what came next.
Alison Dahl has spent ten years saving every commission and bonus for one thing: a cupcake shop in Silverton Lake with a tin ceiling and a dream she's refused to let go of. The day she signs the contract, she steps off a curb without looking.
Chad Hastings catches her. He doesn't mean anything by it.
Except Chad is a widower with a six-year-old son and a collection letter in his glove box he's afraid to open, and Alison is not who he expected, and Silverton Lake has a way of making people slow down long enough to notice what's right in front of them.
When the bakery walls go up and the feelings she's been ignoring won't stay quiet, Alison and Chad will have to decide whether the life they've been building separately might be better together.
Sometimes the best thing you ever made isn't on the menu.
A Time to Bake is a heartfelt Christian romance about:
– A driven, relatable heroine starting over as a bakery owner
– A protective widowed hero and single dad trying to forgive himself
– Small-town Missouri life around a lake and a farmer’s market
– Found family and a tight-knit church community
– Realistic grief, guilt, and emotional healing
– Faith in God’s timing, provision, and second chances
– Sweet, closed-door romance and slow-build, swoony moments
– Cinnamon roll cupcakes, pumpkin moon pies, and one heroic cactus
As Alison learns to loosen her grip on her meticulously planned life and Chad wrestles with whether he can trust God with his son and his heart, both must answer the same quiet question: When God stirs up something new, will you cling to control or step into the unknown and let Him write the story?
Perfect for readers who enjoy Becky Wade, Denise Hunter, Melissa Tagg, Courtney Walsh, or Carla Laureano, A Time to Bake will make you laugh, ache, crave cinnamon, and smile through happy tears. If you enjoy:
– Bakery and food truck romances
– Second chance at love stories
– Single dad and strong heroine dynamics
– Clean Christian romance with a clear faith thread
Then pull up a chair at The Pumpkin Moon, grab a cupcake, and fall in love with Silverton Lake.
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