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The Modern Classics · Book 3

Great Ex-Baketations

by Holland Ashby

Baking Show RomanceCyrano RetellingHidden IdentitySlow BurnRom-Com

Felicity is the best baker no one has ever heard of — because for three years, her genius has worn someone else’s name.

She’s the secret ghost-baker behind celebrity chef Fiona Douglas: the real hands behind the flawless on-camera showstoppers, the cookbook, the fame. Fiona takes the credit. Felicity takes the 3 a.m. bakes and the invisibility.

Then Fiona lands a guest-judge seat on the world’s most beloved baking competition and hauls Felicity across the ocean with one impossible rule: keep producing chef-level pastry in secret, under the same roof as the judges and the entire crew.

The trouble is Gabriel Bellerose — the show’s exacting, universally adored judge, whose every technique Felicity has studied for years, and who notices the one pair of hands nobody is supposed to notice. The closer he looks, the harder it gets to keep hiding… especially once her self-absorbed ex comes crashing back into frame.

A Cyrano-flavored baking-show rom-com about ghost bakes, borrowed names, and finally deciding to be the main character of your own story.

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Felicity & Gabriel

Felicity and Gabriel Gabriel

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