{ "item_title" : "The Sugarbird Bakery", "item_author" : [" Sloane Ridgeway "], "item_description" : "He left her at twenty-two. He came home at thirty-two. Their daughter is nine.An emotional, slow-burn small-town second-chance billionaire romance with a secret baby, a forced-proximity bakery, and a Pacific Northwest town that decides - once and for all - to keep him.Wesley Calloway built a four-billion-dollar company on the worst email he ever sent. Ten years ago, broke and terrified at twenty-two, he ghosted June Hadley three weeks before he should have been a father. He's been running ever since.When his grandmother dies and leaves him the building that houses the failing Sugarbird Bakery, Wes returns to the small Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Hollow with one plan: bulldoze the bakery, settle the estate, and never come back. Thirty days, in and out.He doesn't expect the bakery to be run by June.He doesn't expect a nine-year-old girl named Etta with his eyes, his grandmother's eyebrows, and a shoebox full of theories about who her father might be.And he sure as hell doesn't expect to find himself, every morning at six, washing dishes for the woman he abandoned - a woman who has every right to throw him out, and every reason in the world not to take him back.Inside this slow-burn small-town billionaire romance:Billionaire hero who learns to wash dishesSingle-mom heroine running a small-town bakerySecret-baby reveal with emotional weight, not melodramaSecond-chance reunited-lovers romanceForced proximity in a Pacific Northwest bakery kitchenGrumpy/sunshine dynamic with banter that earns its tendernessFound-family ensemble the whole town gets in onDevastating third-act breakup with a believable causePublic, costly grand gestureHEA (happily ever after) on page with epilogueSteamy heat - emotionally driven, sensual, on-page intimacyPerfect for fans of Tessa Bailey's It Happened One Summer, Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacation, Christina Lauren, Carley Fortune's Every Summer After, Mariana Zapata, Penelope Ward, and anyone who lost themselves in Beach Read.Cedar Hollow is a contemporary romance series. Each book stands alone with its own HEA, but the small-town characters appear across the trilogy.Book 1: The Sugarbird Bakery - Wes & June (this book)Book 2: Lou's Salon - coming 2027Book 3: The Inlet House - coming 2027One-click, pour a coffee, and come home to Cedar Hollow.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/540/9798195400699_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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