As owner of her beloved Gingerbread Bakery, Annie Andrews should have a love life to match her business; sugary and sweet. But instead, she’s locked in a game of words with the irritatingly upbeat bar owner down the street. Mac Sullivan has everything he wants, except the girl he dreams of. It’s easier to argue with Annie than get her to talk to him but with Jeanie and Logan’s wedding coming up, they’re about to spend a lot more time together. As the snowflakes fall and with romance in the air, will Annie see that the one she loves to hate might just be her perfect match after all?

I need to admit here that this book is easily my favorite book in the “Dream Harbor” series. This book is the 5th book in the series, and I need to admit here that I waited for this book since I started this book, because this book is about Annie and Mac which had a enemies situation going on from the first book and this book actually gives us the why behind their enemies situation since book 1 in this series.

From the start of this book I was completely hooked into it, and I just couldn’t bring myself to stop reading it. I have read this book in 2 days which easily I could have shorted down to one day if I didn’t have to go to work. And the fact that it has been awhile since I read the previous book in this series made me even more hooked onto this book. Since I gotta admit that this series is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine. 

The plot in this book has a huge Christmas vibe to it which made it even before because I read this book last year (2025) in late November so I gotta admit that I was already getting into the Christmas vibe early. At the same time the plot in this book is very sweet and fun which really got onto my guilty pleasure aspect I had with this whole series.

The plot in this book is big on the “second-chance” romance trop which never tends to work on me personally but in this book I completely loved it. Which was sort of weird for me because as Ive said above I hate the “second-chance” romance plots in books but the author of this book had written it in a way that had really worked well for me personally and made me actually enjoy it.

The writing in this book was very good. Because it was like the author of this book used the writing to completely grab my attention and not let it go until the very end of this book. And the fact that this book doesn’t use the romance book cliches phrases like “she bit her lower lip” or “she smiled with her lower lip” made me give this book a lot of extra points for and it made me like this book even more. 

The characters in this book, are very good. I may be biased here because I just spend 5 books with the same characters. But I genuinely believe that the characters are even better than they were in the previous books. Because at this point of this book being the 5th book in the series means that I had spend a lot of time with the characters and at this point I feel like I have known the characters for a very long time because of this I would have no problem being friends with all of the characters in this book and this series. 

The fact that this book and series takes place in a very small town, where everyone knowns each other is one of the main reasons why I love this series so much. Because I would kill to be born in such a town because there is something about such a town I find to very cozy and fun. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5