The Gingerbread Bakery

The Dream Harbour, Book 5

De: Laurie Gilmore

Narrado por: Savannah Peachwood, Sebastian York

The highly anticipated new Dream Harbor romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pumpkin Spice Café!

*This audio edition includes an exclusive Q&A with the author*

‘If you like steamy, small-town romance, then global bestselling author Laurie Gilmore should definitely be your go-to’—Fabulous Magazine

Every book in the Dream Harbor series can be enjoyed as a standalone.

As owner of her beloved Gingerbread Bakery, Annie Andrews should have a love life to match her business; sugary and sweet. But instead, she’s locked in a game of words with the irritatingly upbeat bar owner down the street.

Mac Sullivan has everything he wants, except the girl he dreams of. It’s easier to argue with Annie than get her to talk to him but with Jeanie and Logan’s wedding coming up, they're about to spend a lot more time together.

As the snowflakes fall and with romance in the air, will Annie see that the one she loves to hate might just be her perfect match after all?

The Gingerbread Bakery is a cozy romantic novel with an enemies to lovers dynamic, small-town setting and a HEA guaranteed!

Tropes:

• Enemies to lovers
• Found family
• Small Town
• Forced Proximity

©2025 Laurie Gilmore (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers

Sweetest Small Town Romance!

❄️ Laurie Gilmore's The Gingerbread Bakery has the reader falling in love with both the story of Annie & Mac as well as the town of Dream Harbor! Gilmore draws the reader into the small town of Dream Harbor making them feel as if they are one of the town residents with the perfect view of watching the enemies to lovers relationship between Annie & Mac evolve into a true love story.

❄️ I love the narration by both Savannah Peachwood (Annie) & Sebastian York (Mac). They are well suited to their characters. Both are expressive narrators who easily bring to life the characters of the story. Their entire narration is fluid & they match the other well moving through the story. This book is a great listen.

❄️ I love the story of Annie & Mac & really enjoyed listening to this book. I highly recommend adding it to your ever growing list of books to read or listen to soon!

✨ While this book is part of a series it can be read as a standalone ✨

The story

Great story along with intimate details about characters and their relationships. I love series that follow a town and those that live there

Ugh it’s so cute I can’t stand it!

What a great frenimies to lovers troupe and a sweet way to get ready for the holidays! (pun intended)

LOVED, every story is so well written

I absolutely adore that it has every single character from all the previous stories and ties everything together gives you answers to questions you didn’t even know you had. I love the descriptive text and messages of fall and Christmas and different seasons that each book provides highly recommend the entire series. I’m excited for the next one.

Perfect love story

This series made me love romance again especially because I do enjoy the small town closeness I wish I could find

M+A+kittens

Loved Mac and Annie's story! Plus the kittens were a nice touch to the story.

Cute

The Gingerbread Bakery has the small cozy vibes during Christmas. Mac and Annie had 1 perfect month, and then he left. Mac regretted leaving, because he loved her even though she was hated him for leaving. He finally came home for her. I liked Mac, but Annie was very frustrating. She is a Jedi master at holding grudges, and really made him work for her. She wouldn't even let him apologize when he initially came back! I did love the town and the secondary characters. Sebastian York and Savannah Peachwood are perfect as Mac and Annie.

Love Dream Harbor

First of all, I love this series. I loved this book. Loved the story. Loved Annie & Mac. But you know how it feels when you have a book series on your shelf and the next book releases but it’s not the same height as the others? And the aesthetic is ruined? That’s how I felt with The Gingerbread Bakery. I love Savannah Peachwood and Sebastian York but it felt off with it not being narrated by Regina Reagan. Hopefully when my physical book comes next week it matches the others. And I’m ready for Daisy & Elliot!

Duke narration not needed

As always love the development of dream harbor the kooky small town with a heart of gold. Annie and Mac are a couple I’ve been waiting to read about.

With the author writing in third person I didn’t feel the duel narration works as well as with others who write in the first person.

Enough already!

I was surprised that I was so unnervingly drawn to keep listening to this obnoxious tale of an on again/off again spiteful relationship! I had to skip over chunks of audio because of the sheer silliness of the woman’s attitude!..not that she didn’t have just cause, but her personality was quite immature!