Y’all, when I tell you this delightfully sweet and sexy bon bon of a novel is everything I needed to take my mind off of [insert Kermit flail here] everything. I just didn’t know it when I started The Alpha and the Baker by Roxie Ray this morning.
Castiel McAllister*, known by one and all as Cas, is a golden retriever of an alpha wolf shifter. Nary a grunt or assholery behavior to be found, only a desire for his pack to be safe, healthy and happy. So, when one of the adolescent shifters in his pack has an accident in the kitchen that ruins an enormous cake prepared for a pack celebration, he immediately runs into town and stops at the first bakery he finds for an emergency replacement.
*And, honestly, for all you Supernatural fans, he’s everything I have ever heard about Misha Collins.
Felicia Nga has accomplished her dream of owning a bakery, but it’s struggling. She has some regulars, but doesn’t really do enough business to stay above water. So when an absolutely gorgeous man reeking of desperation and willing to pay twice her usual rate plus delivery fee for a cake to be delivered that afternoon, she decides to accept the challenge and make it happen.
There’s tension with a rival pack, fairies are the real bad guys, and everything is decided with a community wide bake-off. It is low stakes delightfulness with a side of fun sexy times and an unexpected lesson about colonization thrown in.
Four out of five stars. Definitely give this one a try if you are looking for something to turn your brain off with for several hours. I found it on Kindle Unlimited, but it is also available in print on Amazon.