Description
When the chair of a small New Hampshire town’s gingerbread-house competition elopes with its judge two weeks before the big day, the bylaws hand the whole event to the two bakers who have been feuding over it for four years. The rule cards they write to keep each other in line turn into the best courtship either of them has had, and neither of them knows the chair who left is Dorie’s mother, and she planned every minute of it.
Genre: Contemporary romance / small-town holiday romantic comedy
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, rival bakers, forced to work together, written rules, snowed in with one bed, meddling mother, small-town Christmas
Target length: 70,000–78,000 words (about 300–330 pages)
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