Evan Goldman loves fall, October, and Halloween. He’s decorated his bakery, he’s made cinnamon-pumpkin cupcakes, and he’s spending his day off inventing a new cake recipe. He isn’t expecting customers, and he’s busy with chocolate and ginger.
But a delivery mix-up has a customer knocking at Evan’s door. Matt’s right out of Evan’s fantasies: a deliciously adorable off-duty firefighter who compliments his cupcakes and makes Evan smile, and looks at him like Evan’s the tastiest treat of all.
They’ve only just met, but Matt might bring all of Evan’s fantasies to life ... with extra spice.
October Spice By K.L. Noone Monday afternoon, one week before Halloween, Evan Goldman regarded the cake. The cake regarded him right back, with fresh-baked optimism. He thought this recipe would be a good one. Chocolate, whiskey, autumn spices. An experiment, but ideally a delicious one. A taste-test of his thoughts about the cake he’d be making for his best friend, a thank-you and conspiratorial excitement rolled into one. Jeff, the best friend in question, was responsible for the financial half of the bakery’s success, and had turned Evan’s excitement about flavors and experimentation into an actual thriving well-organized business; Jeff, Evan knew, was planning to propose to his long-time partner on November first, as a surprise part of their birthday celebrations. Lindsay, the part