October 17th, 2026
Home | Log in!
❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Welcome to FreshFiction

Are you a reader
or an author?

Help us personalize your experience. Choose your role below.
You can always change this later using the switcher button.

or

You can switch anytime using the floating button.

Limited Time Fresh Fiction Access

Exclusive Marketing Opportunities for Authors

Curious about how Fresh Access helps authors gain more visibility and connect with active readers?

Discover premium promotional opportunities, enhanced exposure, and author-focused services designed to help your books stand out.

Read More →
On Top Shelf
Fresh Pick
HAUNTED HULA-WEEN
📚 New Books This Week 📰 Latest News 🎪 Reader Games 👻 🎃 Halloween Contest Giveaways 🎃

October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

Slideshow image


slideshow image
A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


slideshow image
Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


slideshow image
If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


slideshow image
She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


slideshow image
He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


slideshow image
She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

He Takes the Cake by J. Lynn Rowan

Purchase

Add to Wish List


Also by J. Lynn Rowan:

He Takes the Cake, July 2017
e-Book
The One I'm With, October 2016
e-Book
When in Rome, April 2016
e-Book
Better Than Chocolate, September 2015
e-Book

HE TAKES THE CAKE
By: J. Lynn Rowan

Sweet Somethings #4
Soul Mate Publishing
July 2017
On Sale: June 21, 2017
Featuring: Tess Gardiner; Tyler Brinks
Kindle: B071JSQC3J
e-Book
Add to Wish List

Romance Contemporary | Romance Multicultural

Sometimes it just takes a little spark to reignite an old flame …

Life is good for Tess Gardiner: Her Savannah, Georgia, bakery and café is thriving. She’s earned Master Pastry Chef status from the American Culinary Federation. And she’s attending a regional culinary convention in Charleston, where she’s been invited to sit on a small business panel discussion. The opportunity to tout her success will, hopefully, lead to bigger and better things in her professional life. As for her personal life? The relative contentedness she’s enjoyed for years receives a sudden jolt when she comes face to face with Tyler Brinks, the ex-boyfriend she summarily dismissed from her life eight years ago.

Tyler’s success as a highly-trained chef has launched him into the stratosphere. He already owns one ridiculously successful restaurant, and he’s aggressively working on plans for a second. But he’s never quite gotten over Tess, and he’s never really been sure what actually went wrong between them. So when a pastry and baking competition is announced for the week following the culinary convention in Charleston, Ty jumps at the chance to tempt Tess with the challenge of being his partner, giving him the perfect opportunity to remind her how good they once were together.

As the competition heats up in the kitchen, it soon becomes clear to Tess that Ty has more than cream puffs and cupcakes on his mind. And she can’t deny that her feelings for Ty never truly cooled, but have been simmering all these years, despite the way their relationship ended. Now Ty’s attention has her wondering . . . Is this just the path to final closure? Or could this be a second chance at true love?

Sweet Somethings

Better Than Chocolate
BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE
#1.0 β€’ September 2015
When in Rome
WHEN IN ROME
#2.0 β€’ April 2016
The One I'm With
THE ONE I'M WITH
#3.0 β€’ October 2016
He Takes the Cake
HE TAKES THE CAKE
#4.0 β€’ July 2017