The Baker’s Rival (Messy Love)

I’ve spent years working toward one thing: opening a bakery of my own.

So when I get a spot on The Golden Whisk, a televised baking competition with a $100,000 prize, I know exactly what I have to do. Survive four weeks of impossible challenges, beat the other bakers, and walk away with enough money to finally make my dream happen.

Simple.

Or it would be, if Noah Wyatt weren’t standing at the station across from mine.

Noah is a pastry chef, an online baking star, and the owner of an infuriating smirk he seems determined to aim in my direction. I’m not impressed by his hundreds of thousands of followers, his backward baseball cap, or the fact that he apparently thinks flirting is an acceptable competitive strategy.

I am slightly more concerned by the fact that he’s actually good.

The longer the competition goes on, the harder it becomes to keep Noah where he belongs: firmly in the rival category. Because behind all that charm is someone I didn’t expect, and somewhere between the competition, the late nights, and a few decisions that definitely shouldn’t happen between rivals, beating Noah stops being the only thing on my mind.

Which is a problem.

I came here because winning could change my life.

Falling for the man trying to beat me could change it too.

The Baker’s Rival is a spicy rivals-to-lovers romantic comedy with forced proximity, sharp banter, a televised baking competition, and a hero who falls first.