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The truth is that Annie Richards is just too busy to fall in love!

Running a successful cake-making business, acting as caretaker to a grand country house, not to mention single-handedly raising her five-year-old daughter, is more than enough to keep Annie’s - –flour-dusted – hands full! So can someone please remind her why she agreed to train for a marathon as a ‘Forty things to do before you’re forty’ pact with her so-called best friend?!

With every hour of the day already taken up, the arrival of crime writer Jake O’Donnell at Buttersley shouldn’t really have any impact on Annie’s life at all. There’s definitely no time in her carefully scheduled day for dreaming about drop-dead gorgeous authors. Is there?

But between whipping up batches of her signature limoncello cupcakes, Annie realises that Jake, and his twinkling dark eyes, can’t just be ticked off her mental to-do list as easily as she thought. Especially when it seems that no. 40 on her list could be creating a truly decadent wedding cake – for her very own wedding…