Brooklyn baker Tia Marshall needs the Christmas competition's prize money to save her struggling bakery. What she doesn't need is the scorching chemistry with Judge Marcello Bianco, whose family connections are as dangerous as his dark eyes are tempting.

When local mobsters threaten to turn her bakery into rubble to get to him, Tia must decide if the man who makes her burn hotter than a double batch of gingerbread is worth risking everything she's built. Gingerbread and Gunpowder is a deliciously steamy short holiday romance that will have you longing for the perfect recipe for love and danger.