The Gingerbread Architect's Blueprint
A Rival-to-Lovers Holiday Romance

About this book:

She builds with calculus; he builds with cinnamon. When structural engineer Hannah Vance is hired to sign off on Pine Ridge's bid for the World's Largest Edible Holiday Village, she expects a code violation waiting to happen. Instead, she finds Julian Blake: a pastry prodigy who treats gingerbread like sculpture, physics like a suggestion, and her meticulous blueprints like scratch paper. With three weeks until the governor cuts the ribbon, a historic downtown hanging in the balance, and half a ton of butter arriving at dawn, they strike a deal—she brings the math, he brings the magic, and neither admits how much they need the other.

The competition is fierce, the humidity is rising, and the sexual tension has a higher tensile strength than Julian's reinforced molasses beams. From load-bearing lattice work to midnight bake-offs, Hannah and Julian trade razored banter and stolen glances over hydraulic presses and piping bags, discovering that the strongest structures require a little give. But when a catastrophic collapse threatens to bury the project—and their fragile truce—on the eve of the record attempt, they'll have to decide if they're building a gingerbread city or something built to last.

Smart, steamy, and layered like a perfect spiced torte, *The Gingerbread Architect's Blueprint* is a holiday rivals-to-lovers romance where competence is the ultimate aphrodisiac, engineering is foreplay, and the only thing more dangerous than a cantilevered sugar-spire is falling for the one person who makes you want to throw away the rulebook.