Recipe for love:

1 dreamer

1 grumpy fire chief

1 cat with attitude

Stir well

Rebel Hamilton has one marketable skill—she can bake like an angel. Her plan? Turn a crumbling coastal bakery into Sweet Spot, live in the dusty apartment upstairs with her rescue cat Pumpkin, and pour her heart into pastries.

Deputy Fire Chief Tom Harris is unimpressed. The building's a firetrap, Rebel's a walking hazard, and he's at her door so often his team jokes about giving him loyalty points.

But when mysterious incidents threaten Rebel's grand opening, and a broken-tailed cat draws them closer, Tom starts seeing something more than a stubborn dreamer—he sees a woman worth protecting.

And maybe... worth falling for.

Sometimes love rises where you least expect it.