A Legend in the Baking

Though Sloane and August have pined for each other since they were teens, they’ve been careful to keep away from each other, even after August opened a bakery with Sloane’s brother Donovan. But now Sloane has quit her marketing job, while August goes viral for schooling some sexist jerks. It’s a perfect opportunity for August to market the business’s second location and for Sloane to market herself to a new employer. But can their hearts take this much unsupervised closeness again? This second entry in Wesley’s “Sugar Blitz” series (after Fake It Till You Bake It) is the definition of a slow burn. Wesley mines the second-chance romance trope for tension, keeping the stakes naturalistic, the history drip-fed, and the emotional barriers authentic. The resolution comes from working with friends and loved ones to get each out of their own way. Jaime Lincoln Smith and Nia Serge coordinate their narration well, even keeping the same mid-sentence pauses and emphasis shifts consistent across their characters’ points of view.