Baked Inn Love

Freedom Valley, Book 2

De: Erin Branscom

Narrado por: Keira Stevens, Thomas Locklear

Friends to lovers, fake marriage, epic road trip, millionaire, single parent, different worlds.

Single mom Allie’s only bright light is her son, four-year-old Caleb. When Allie is fired from her job and Caleb’s previously absent father returns to fight for custody, she knows it’s time to leave San Diego. To get closer to her support systems, she needs to move across the country to her family inn in Freedom Valley, New Hampshire. Enter Logan Nolan, a handsome Canadian literary agent. When a good friend begs him to help bring Allie and Caleb home, he can’t say no. During the road trip, Allie and Logan realize they have something to offer each other: a marriage of convenience.

Before they know it, Allie and Logan live as a family in Freedom Valley. Allie, a passionate baker, starts her own business, and Logan learns how to balance his career with his new pretend family. Logan never saw himself as a family man, but as he spends more time with Allie and Caleb, he begins to rethink his views. Allie has always gotten by on her own, but with Logan around, she’s starting to wish her marriage was real, especially as Caleb’s father’s efforts to take his son intensify. Can Allie and Logan give in to their true feelings and turn make-believe into something real?

Baked Inn Love is a complete stand-alone and can be listened to without listening to any of the other books, but if you prefer to listen in order, start with Falling Inn Love as the characters and families are connected.

©2022 Erin Branscom (P)2023 Erin Branscom

What a good story!

What a good story. I was excited to dive into this one as its the second in the series and I enjoyed the first. I enjoy the Inn where these are staged and all the characters that reside there to make this another wonderful book.

I enjoyed Logan and Allie who we briefly met in the first book but they did not know each other. I liked the get to know you road trip as it sounds like they had fun. Each one of these characters has a past that they are unhappy with and they each learn to deal with it through the story.

I did listen to this on audio. Kiera Stevens and Thomas Locklear are the narrators. I loved Ms Stevens as Allie. She throughly encompassed her and I could picture her in my head. Mr Locklear, while was outstanding as Logan, I did not like his female voice. It just sounded too high pitched and falsetto and threw me off for a second when he was being Allie.

Great story with wonderful narration

I adored the first book and this is a great addition to this series. So many amazing tropes wrapped into this one beautiful love story - cross country road trip, opposites attract, single mom, fake marriage and instant attraction. Erin gives us amazing characters who are a bit down on their luck and throws in an amazing hero to help them work through their troubles. Allie is a struggling single mom who is doing her best - she is strong, determined and creative in order to support her and her son. Logan is the ideal man who has a big heart, work focused and is very accommodating. During their unexpected trip they find fun and exciting g adventure and help one another become better people. They face some challenges along the way but are determined to see them through…together. Towards the end you wanted to shake both of them and say get your $&@t together, open your eyes and realize what’s in front of you! Lol Thomas Locklear and Keira Stevens did a great job on the narration - they are new to me narrators but would definitely listen to them again. They did a great job of bringing out all the emotions for all the characters. I enjoy audiobooks because they bring a different dimension to the story.

If you thought the first book was good....

I received this audio book 🔈📕as an ALC to listen to.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️out of 5️⃣ for Story
🌶️ out of 5️⃣ for spice
🔈🔈🔈🔈 out of 5️⃣ for narration

Tropes:
🥐 Single mom
🥐 Friends to lovers
🥐 Fake marriage
🥐 Millionaire
🥐 Found family

Falling Inn Love was such a good read and I knew that Baked Inn Love would be just as great. What I was not prepared for was for it to be such a good audio book! The audio book is narrated by Thomas Locklear and Keira Stevens. And holy smokes, the chemistry they have in this book is gooood!

Keira did such a great job with showing us all the emotions that Ally is going through. You can really feel her self doubt, her worries and her love when listening to her chapters. And then you have Thomas… oh Thomas. He was amazing as our Logan. His voice had just right amount of emotion in it to make us fall in love with Logan but also feel the possessiveness and love he has for Ally. I enjoyed the narration for the book.

Now the story, holy smokes the story. Ally is a single mom dealing with her baby boy revering from surgery and dealing with a dead beat dad who is trying to take over custody for her son. All the while, the dad has no idea who his son is and hasn’t even met him! Such a rollercoaster of emotions right off the bat.

The story takes us on an across the country journey with Logan and Ally. While they get to know each other, they completely fall head over heels and Logan will do anything to help Ally keep her family together. This is where all the drama comes in and I was soooo here for it. Erin Branscom is an amazing writer that really knows how to pull at our heart strings. I absolutely devoured this audiobook and I’m excited to see if the third one in the series gets an audiobook as well!

Cute Rom-Com!

This was so lovely. Such a cute Rom-Com. I love how the author gave the single mom a way to have fun and fall in love without neglecting her kid. The cross-country trip was so cute, and I loved all the little things they did together, like picking out shirt souvenirs. That ending! Oh goodness, I was in happy tears. It was so sweet and perfect.

I look forward to book three (All Inn Thyme) in this series that comes out March 2nd!

I enjoyed the female narrator and felt she did an excellent job on different depths for different characters and inflection for emotions.

A great single mom, road trip story!

I enjoyed this storyline so much! I picked it up knowing that it was a single mom road trip romance where the male main character was bribed into driving the female character across the country to help move her home as a favor to a friend, and that I really should have read book 1 first… but what this truly is, is a completely complicated and twisted road trip followed by a fake marriage, terrible ex, custody issue, a ton of heart, and found family that was just absolutely brilliant!!

And - I absolutely have to go back to the first book to get the full story of Evan and Beth! They both had huge roles in this story and now I have their future, so I need to get their background.

Allie and Caleb are a great team - until she loses her job, needs to bake up a storm to pay to move them across the country, back to her family Inn (still not sure exactly how she’ll do it), when her brother and his new wife send her literary agent Logan as a favor to help drive, while her mom flies little Caleb (with his health so poor, the long drive won’t be good for him).

They bond along the way, stop to meet his sisters, and make a plan to get fake married when Caleb’s father, for the first time, decides he’s not just ready to meet his son (for the first time), but just out-right take him. Everyone rallies and the troops come together and plans are formed to keep Allie and Caleb together, and perpetual bachelor Logan realizes that just maybe having this fake little life isn’t so bad…

Audio - both narrators were brand new voices to me. I quite liked Keira Stevens. Very good job! Thomas Locklear had a very strong male voice… such a shame about when he tried to voice the female characters… he would do well on duet style narration (when the female narrators do all the female lines)! Ouch. Otherwise, his voice was good when not trying to imitate a woman (should really, really work on that, bud).

I definitely recommend this one! I’m going back to book one now, and looking forward to book 3 coming end of March, and 4 end of June!!

I received an advance listen copy from the author and Home Cooked Books PR, and this is my honest review and feedback.

Sweet and Heartwarming!

This is the second book in the Freedom Valley Series. Allie and Logan's friends to lover and fake relationship is sweet, and heartwarming, filled with drama, and twists and turns. Allie, a single Mom, is beautiful, smart, caring, and determined. Logan is very handsome, supportive, and protective. They are opposites attract, and they are perfect together. I loved to follow them in their journey to love. Allie's son is so cute! The supporting characters are great. The family bond in the story is amazing. Keira Stevens and Thomas Locklear did an excellent job bringing this story to life. The ending is so beautiful! I enjoyed it. Looking forward to more in the series. #HomeCookedBooks

Sweet Road Trip Romance

What starts as a quick road trip coast to coast begins the journey of a lifetime. Baked Inn Love is a sweet road trip Romcom. More lighthearted than book one, Baked Inn Love is a charming reminder that love can be found when you least expect it. If you like a fun, low-steam, heartfelt romance, add Baked Inn Love to your TBR.

Thomas Locklear and Keira Stevens are new-to-me narrators. I enjoyed their performances. They matched well in style and pacing. At times I struggled with Thomas’ voice for female characters, but his characterization of Logan was wonderful. His voice has a gravelly, unwavering, sultry tone that fits Logan. Keira gave a delightful performance as Allie throughout her blossoming character arc. Baked Inn Love is an endearing love story and fun audiobook.

a really special romance

Erin Brascome brought us a road trip, forced proximity, fake relationship romance. it had a little Vegas, love at first sight, and a whole lotta of chemistry. it's sweet, a bit agnsty, and a very fun HEA.

Cross country love!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Fall into the spirit with this book! Allie and Logan were perfect strangers, only linked by her brother's fiance. It helped that her entire family had met Logan, but they knew nothing about each other. That he was willing to help her move cross country from California to New Hampshire showed his good character. I loved how he recognized so quickly that Allie lost herself along the way of motherhood and made it a point to make their trek all about finding Allie the person. Holy cheese and crackers and the entire charcuterie board! I would be deceased. He works hard, has great personality, loves hard, and bakes!?!?! Sign me up! I've been loving these visits to Freedom Valley and the stories that lead me there.

Thomas Locklear and Keira Stevens are new to me narrators. Hearing these new voices bring this great story to life was amazing. Their narrations were perfectly voiced! I look forward to listening to more of their work in the future.

I received an advance copy of this book at my request and voluntarily left this review.

Book 2 - Freedom Valley

This is book 2 in Branscom's Freedom Valley series. First let me just say how much I loved book 1 and I couldn't wait for this book. Also, I adore narrator Locklear and Stevens was a great compliment to his stellar vocal talents. I thought this dual narration was perfection in bringing our main characters Allie and Logan. While I enjoy almost all genres of romance I am currently obsessed with rom-coms and this book certainly delivers with the sweet, heat and of course the laughs. Great characters, fun and smooth flowing storyline. I was captivated from start to finish and I can't wait for more in this series.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I voluntarily provided this review