The Gingerbread Bakery (Dream Harbor #5) (Pre-order September 16, 2025)

The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore (Pre-order September 16, 2025) 

🥐 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café comes the next irresistible Dream Harbor romance!

(Each book can be read as a standalone.)

❄️ The holidays are sweeter with a little heat… ❄️

Annie Andrews pours her heart into the Gingerbread Bakery, where every cookie, tart, and cake is sugar-dusted perfection. The only thing missing? A romance as sweet as her creations. Too bad the only man who makes her pulse race is also the one who drives her crazy—Mac Sullivan, the maddeningly upbeat bar owner across the street.

Mac has everything he could want… except Annie. Trading barbs with her is easier than admitting how much he cares. But with a wedding around the corner and the snow piling high, forced proximity might just turn their fiery banter into something neither of them can resist.

Filled with small-town charm, cozy holiday magic, and the warm glow of found family, The Gingerbread Bakery is a sparkling enemies-to-lovers romance guaranteed to leave you smiling.

✨ Tropes you’ll love:

• Enemies to lovers

• Found family

• Small-town romance

• Forced proximity

• Holiday happily-ever-after