Kind of a quirky romance set mostly in a bakery where Bri Duval works for two aging owners. She hopes she’ll be able to keep the bakery after they no longer wish to work, she doesn’t dream of going anywhere other than that bakery and she wants to live a love life like that of her parents who are deceased. She’s had them on a pedestal for years. Then a handsome travel writer for Trek Magazine rolls into town to write about the bakery and the lovelock wall she created behind the bakery that mimic’s that of the famous Parisian one. She created that to help the struggling bakery, and as an homage to her parents and their love story that played out in Paris so many years ago.
The writer Gerard Fortier didn’t want to write this story but he does want to
get his promotion so he’ll do as he’s told and get the story even though he
seems to not like sweets, or Bri Duval, or so he tells himself. This is an unexpectedly sweet romance with
two people who keep telling themselves they have no attraction to each other. You’ll have to read the story which has many
good things to say about itself to find out how things work out. I recommend it, if you are looking for
something that’s somewhat of a sweet diversion in your otherwise boring
pandemic day.
I received this book in kindle format from NetGalley. I was not required to give a review or a
positive review, the words and opinions of this book are my own freely
given. #TheKeyToLove #NetGalley
The only thing Bri Duval loves more than baking petit fours is romance.
So much so, she's created her own version of the famous Parisian lovelock wall
at her bakery in Story, Kansas. She never expects it to go viral--or for Trek
Magazine to send travel writer Gerard Fortier to feature the bakery.
He's definitely handsome, but Bri has been holding out for a love story like
the one her parents had, and that certainly will not include the
love-scorned-and-therefore-love-scorning Gerard.
Just when
it seems Bri's bakery is poised for unprecedented success, a series of events
threaten not just her business but the pedestal she's kept her parents on all
these years. Maybe Gerard is right about romance. Or maybe Bri's recipe just
needs to be tweaked.
Novelist
Betsy St. Amant invites you to experience this sweet story of how love doesn't
always look the way we expect--and maybe that's a good thing.
