Only three things stand between Ava Carmichael and her twelve billion dollar inheritance:
1. A year of living in Bliss, Kansas.
2. A relationship that lasts six consecutive months.
3. A pie.
Ava has run a multi-billion-dollar company, negotiated with shark investors, and hobnobbed with business royalty, but sheโs about to be defeated by her inability to turn sugar, flour, and apple pie filling into something edible.
Conveniently, the owner of the diner next door, Parker Blake, is magic in the kitchen. And he technically works for her. So she can make him teach her to bake. And, hey, if everyone assumes theyโre heating up more than the oven during their time in the kitchenโฆwell, thatโs called multitasking.
Parker Blake likes his women the way he likes his coffee: not in his diner. But gorgeous, strong-willed, type-A Ava clearly isnโt going to stop messing up his kitchenโor his simple, stress-free small town lifeโuntil the conditions of her daddyโs will are met. So, sure, heโll teach his โbossโ to bake.
But once the kitchen door closes, itโs pretty clear whoโs really in charge.
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