My Cupcake, My Love — Carolynn Carey

First published in 2013, My Cupcake, My Love won the 2014 HOLT Medallion Award honoring outstanding literary talent (voted on by readers) in the novella category. In 2019, I decided to create a series set in the small mountain town of Cedar Hollow. My Cupcake, My Love, with a new cover and minor changes in the text, became the introductory story in that series. Briana Galen is perfectly content operating her bakery in her hometown of Cedar Hollow, Tennessee, near the Great Smoky Mountains. She's content, that is, until famous novelist Devin Morris moves back to town with his six-year-old daughter. Devin seems determined to think the worst of Bri, even accusing her of canceling her cupcake decorating class for children just to spite him.Devin's move back to the mountains from New York City was designed to comfort his daughter Kaitlin, whose mother deserted her to move to Europe with her lover. The last thing Devin wants is to become involved with another self-centered female, and Briana Galen appears to be just that. But if she thinks he'll let her cancel that cupcake decorating class just because she's busy, she's got another think coming. At the same time, who could have guessed that his volunteering to supply Valentine-themed cupcake decorations for Bri's class would leave him with his own heart pierced by Cupid's arrow? Now he can only hope that Cupid has Bri in his sights too.