Just Desserts

by Barbara Bretton

This authors novels are always very enjoyable. The main character is an overworked bakery owner and baker named Hayley Goldstein, her fourteen year old daughter is the brains and accountant in the operation. Her ex-husbands money schemes always wreak havoc in the form of unexpected visits from strangers so when someone shows up asking for Hayley she's immediately suspicious. Finn Rafferty is a lawyer for a very famous rocker named Tommy Stiles, he doesn't divulge the true reason he's there but it has nothing at all to do with Michael Goldstein. Claiming they need a very elaborate cake for a party and that they will pay handsomely, too handsomely, Hayley believes with some trepidation. Nonetheless, she accepts the deal after many phone conversations with Finn, talks she's beginning to enjoy in no way pertaining to her business. The romance and the comedy that accompany Tommy Stiles into her life made for absorbing days of reading. I really liked Hayley and her daughter Lizzie, no secondary character was left to chance, they were all funny and eccentric.