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The Rival Baker Shared My Oven, So the Whole Town Watched Us Pretend to Hate Each Other

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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Lotte Zeman comes home to her grandmother's bakery to find the oven dead and one other oven in town: a brick Founders' Oven she must share, shift by shift, with the rival baker across the street. Then she learns the forty-year bakery feud was a show.

Tropes & themes: contemporary · female lead · romantic comedy · fake relationship · forced proximity · romance · enemies to lovers · small-town · found family · slow burn · grumpy sunshine · steamy

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Feud Line (free)
  2. Chapter 2: The Chalk Line (free)
  3. Chapter 3: Butter, Inconsistent (free)
  4. Chapter 4: The Burn-Down (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: I Sell What I Like (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: The Flour Bin (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: Still Here, Kids (free with an account)
  8. Chapter 8: Tab Twelve (free with an account)
  9. Chapter 9: The Loud Cot (free with an account)
  10. Chapter 10: A Proper Bed (free with an account)
  11. Chapter 11: Dagny's Terms (free with an account)
  12. Chapter 12: Twenty-Two Minutes (free with an account)
  13. Chapter 13: What Pauline Wants (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: The Curtain (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: Take It (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: Two Columns (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: The Honeymoon Returns (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: The Last Bus (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: One Entry (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: The Town Already Knew (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: Zeman and Vinter (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Cup (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: The Wall (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: Shift Change (locked)

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