Peppermint Bark
Peppermint Bark is the first of the interconnected standalone series in The Sweet Treats Bakery series of holiday novellas.
Stella Sweeting goes back home to the small town she grew up in to spend Christmas with her 5 sisters. They were always known as the Sweeting Bakers of Sweet Treats Bakery, Stella, the black sheep of the family, never got the baking prowess like her sisters, but she rose in the ranks to become a sous chef at a Michelin-rated restaurant.
Her sisters, preoccupied with the upcoming baking competition, enlisted her to compete. During the sign-up, she becomes flustered when she learns the only recipe Grams taught her, gingerbread cookies, was already assigned to another baker. After running through dessert after dessert, she lands on Peppermint Bark.
The Sweeting Sisters regroup, while she befriends the local Christmas tree farmer, Noel Carroll. Sloane, the eldest sister, concocts a wicked plan: pretend to date Noel to get his mother’s fudge recipe, knowing it was the only way they could secure the win.
Noel and Stella hit it off after being snowed in at his cabin, learning the secrets he’s kept hidden away on his snowy mountain and she wonders if she might care more about Noel than she does about the competition. This Christmas, preconceived notions will be forgotten as the sisters begin to accept each other for who they are and not what Gram’s legacy expected of them.
Peppermint Bark: A Sweet Treats Bakery Story is the perfect cozy Christmas tale with short, compelling chapters celebrating what makes each sister unique.
Common tropes include: Black Cat & Golden Retriever, plus sized FMC, reverse fake dating, high spice Christmas romance.
Sensitive Content:
- Explicit sexual content
- Getting lost in the woods
- Bickering sisters
- Feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem
- Internalized fatphobia
- Referenced
Pacemaker failure
Death of parents, grandparents
Car accident (Death)
Osteosarcoma, Dementia
Recreational marijuana use
Irish Cream Bundt Cake
“Maybe it was a grandparent who never saw you for you. They treated you like you were meant to make their life easier.”
Irish Cream Bundt Cake is a cozy romance about Sloane, the eldest Sweeting daughter. She’s been parentified and learned her overbearing ways from her Grams. Grams held her to the highest standard, knowing she would be the one to uphold the mantle of managing Sweet Treats by Sweetings, their family’s bakery. She’s sworn off relationships, putting her sister’s
Enter Murphy, a sweet-talking Irishman who comes from the appliance repair company to fix the oven at the bakery. Sensing the opportunity, he strikes a deal: If he fixes the oven after hours, at cost, She’ll bake his grandmother’s Irish Cream Bundt Cake recipe for his mom’s visit.
Over the nights they spend together, sparks fly, and opposites attract, much to her chagrin. He’s impulsive and carefree—everything Sloane is not. Her sister, Sara, encourages her to leap before she looks and take a chance on the Irishman and her own happiness.
Irish Cream Bundt Cake is book two of the Sweet Treats Bakery Story anthology and is an interconnected standalone. Common tropes include: he falls first. Opposites attract, workplace romance, and sworn off relationships.
Sensitive Content:
- Explicit sexual acts
- Praise, degradation
- Parentification of a child (eldest daughter)
- Inapropriate use of kitchen tools (joke)
- Referenced:
Car accident (death)
cheating (parent)
Narcissism