Fireworks & Frosting

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the House of Night and Towerfall series comes a sun-soaked, high-heat summer romance full of fake flirting, small-town rivalry, and an ordinary woman who never meant to fall for the fox shifter she’s pretending to seduce.

Lila Hart has one goal this festival season: win.
Win the Frosting Queen title, beat her lifelong rival, Candi, once and for all, and finally prove she belongs in a town where everyone else seems a little more magickal. The plan is simple—bake and decorate the perfect cupcakes, charm the judges, and keep her focus. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

Until the tie-breaking judge turns out to be tall, highly sought after, and shifter-god-level gorgeous.

Max Lark is new to town and determined to make it his home. He signs up for everything—beach volleyball, pier cleanup days, even judging the annual Frosting Queen contest—and quickly becomes the man everyone wants on their team. The last thing he expects is a gorgeously curvy, frosting-smudged woman who talks too fast and tries too hard to end up on his doorstep.

Lila wants his vote—no matter what it takes to get it.
Candi is determined to outshine her.
And Max is trying very hard to remember he’s supposed to stay impartial.

Between hand-delivered goodie baskets and late-night taste tests, Lila’s carefully planned seduction strategy starts to feel a little too real. The more she plays her own game, the more she risks her heart on the fox shifter with every reason to choose someone more magickal.

One fox. One human. And one summer that proves magick isn’t the only thing that makes sparks fly.