How the Cookie Crumbles

Frederic was never cut out to be a reality TV star.After losing a rigged cooking show competition, and a potential lover, to another baker, Frederic Jackson wants the anonymity of small town life and his own bakery. He's packed his considerable baggage and moved to Bluewater Bay, using the network's hush money over the show's fixed results to rebuild his simple dream.Blaire Caruthers knew working for his father was a bad idea, manipulating the outcome of the company's flagship show a mistake, but choosing another man over kind, generous Frederic downright stupid. To escape the fallout, he's been sent to sleepy Bluewater Bay to oversee the company's interest in Wolf's Landing merchandise.Confronted with the very things they are trying to escape, both men are forced to make hard choices. Frederic will have to learn to trust the man he loves, but who already proved unreliable. And Blaire has to free himself of family expectation to prove he's the man Frederic deserves.Bluewater Bay was supposed to be a hidden harbor and a hiding place. Instead, it's turned into their second-and maybe last-chance to get things right. Jaime Samms is a plaid-hearted Canadian who spends the too-long winters writing stories about love between men and the too-short summers digging in the garden. There are dust bunnies in the corners of her house-which she blames on a husky named Kai. There are dishes on the counter-which is clearly because teenagers! There is hot coffee in the pot and the occasional meal to keep her from starving-because her husband is remarkable and patient.A multi-published author whose work has been translated into French, Italian, and German, Jaime delights in the intricate dance of words that leads her through tales of the lost and broken hearted men she writes about to the love stories that find and mend them.And when the muse is being stubborn, she also makes pretty things with yarn and fabric scraps because in her world, no heart is too broken to love, and nothing is too worn or tired it can't be upcycled into something beautiful. All it takes is determination and the ability to see life a little bit left of center.