A Day in the Loaf by Stephanie J. Scott: Book Review

 **ARC received for consideration. All opinions are my own. 

The Book

I’ve been in love with my best friend’s sister most of my life. I never imagined I’d be asking her to be my fake fiancée. Even wilder, she said yes.

Marcy:

Some might call me a people-pleaser. A Type-A, stress baker with a bread obsession. I’ve followed my family’s path for me, checking off the right boxes, all to make them happy.

Small problem. I’m not happy.

I haven’t dared tell my parents or my Italian grandmother my dream to ditch my accounting job to open a bakery. A family legacy to honor my grandparents whose bakery shuttered after my grandfather passed. They worked too hard to provide my brothers and me an easier life.

Now I have a real shot at my dream. Inheritance money my grandmother is offering (while alive) to set us up for our next phase of life. The hitch? I need to be thirty or married.

With two years to go and not a fiancé in sight, I’ll be stress baking like it’s a full-time job.

Patrick:

Running for small-town mayor has turned small-time disaster. Now I’m doing the thing I swore I’d never do again: asking my parents for help.

My mother sweeps in with a top-tier campaign manager on a mission to make me relatable to voters. Simply stated, I need a wife. A fake one will do, a fiancée for the run of the campaign.

There’s no one I trust more for the role than Marcy. She’s my best friend’s sister, and one of my closest friends.

My brilliant plan will help us both. She’ll unlock the money for her bakery. I’ll look like a stable mayoral candidate and make a difference in my town.

One catch. I’m in love with her and she can never know.

A Day in the Loaf is a sweet (and a little zany) fake engagement romantic comedy. This is the second book in a series about four friends who find their careers and love lives in need of a major reboot. This book can be read as a standalone.

The Author

Stephanie J. Scott writes light-hearted, quirky romance and young adult. She enjoys dance fitness, everything cats, and has a slight obsession with Instagram. A Midwest girl at heart, she resides outside of Chicago with her tech-of-all-trades husband and fuzzy furbabies.

Book Review

A Day in the Loaf is the second book in the Midwest Mavens series but could definitely be enjoyed just fine as a standalone as well. 

This was such a fun read! Friends to lovers + he falls first+ a fake engagement + a small-town mayoral campaign + meddling family and all the family drama that money and politics can bring about--- what's not to love about all of that!? Patrick has been in love with Marcy for nearly his entire life, but it takes a fake engagement to help them reach their individual goals for those feelings to come to light. I loved the friendship between these two and that longtime pining? Oh my goodness, it was so good. It certainly made their confessions of feelings worth the wait! I loved the chemistry between these two so much... but it was really all the family craziness that really made their story stand out! It was the perfect blend of laugh out loud and swoon worthy moments with a few twists I didn't expect, and I enjoyed every moment! 

A Day in the Loaf is a closed-door romance with kisses only and no language. 


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