The Boy with the Bookstore

When a baker meets the bookshop owner of her dreams,and he turns into her nemesistheyΓÇÖll both have to read between the lines to avoid a career-ending recipe for disaster. Max Boyson looks good…from a distance. But up close and personalthe tattooed hottie Joelle Prima has been crushing on for the past year and half has turned into the prime example of why you shouldnΓÇÖt judge a book by his delectable cover. When she first learned about the massive renovation to the building they shareJoelle imagined that temporarily combining her Filipino bakery with MaxΓÇÖs neighboring bookstore would be the perfect opening chapter to their happily ever after. In her fantasies they fed each other bibingka and pandesal while discussing Jane Austen and cooing over her pet hamsterPumpkin. Realityhowever…is quite different. Her gallant prince turned out to be a stubborn toad who snaps at her in front of customersdries his wet clothes in her ovenand helps himself to the yummy pastries in her display case without asking. But beneath MaxΓÇÖs grumpy glaresJoelle senses a rising heatΓÇöand a softening heart. And when they discover the real reason for the renovationtheyΓÇÖll have to put both their business senses and their feelings for each other to the test.