A reality TV star and a cupcake-baking football player pretend to be a couple in order to save his bakery in this sweet and sexy romance.

Jada Townsend-Matthews is the most reviled woman in America after turning down a proposal on a reality dating show. When she comes home to lick her wounds, Jada finds herself working at San Diego's newest cupcake bakery, Sugar Blitz, alongside the uptight owner and professional football player Donovan Dell.

When a reporter mistakenly believes Jada and Donovan are an item, they realize they can use the misunderstanding to their advantage to help the bakery and rehabilitate Jada's image. Faking a relationship should be simple, but sometimes love is the most unexpected ingredient.

Fake it Till You Bake It is a sweet confection of a novel, the perfect story to curl up with and enjoy with a cupcake on the side.

Booklist Reviews

She denied it, although it was love at first bite when Jada Townsend-Matthews ate her first cupcake at Sugar Blitz, owned by San Diego Knights running back Donovan Dell and his business-partner teammates, Nicholas and August. What Jada couldn't deny was becoming an online laughingstock after declining the marriage proposal on the season finale of reality TV show My One and Only. Speechless from a chance meeting with a reporter pressuring her to reveal why she declined the proposal from America's favorite bachelor, she realizes she is being filmed and immediately kisses an uptight Donovan. She then begs him to go along with her pretense of love. The video begins to trend on Twitter, boosting the declining sales at Sugar Blitz, but does the JaDon relationship sweeten or sour? DeVora's third-person narration is seamless. Listeners can easily follow the appealing characters and relevant storylines that weave Jada's public embarrassment with reactions to social-media perception, her dyslexia, and her complex relationships. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.