Title:  A Cupcake Christmas
Series:  Touchstone #5
Author:  Beth Barany
Genre:  Christmas Romance
Published:  December 25, 2015
Publisher:  Firewolf Books
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  Owned, Kindle Edition
Cover Description:

Florian MacMillian needs a final job to complete his baking resume—preferably a job where he’s unlikely to blow things up with his unruly magic—before returning to the North Pole and taking his rightful place as Master Baker to all the elves.

Kate Delore desperately needs help in her fast-growing cupcake business. Florian is a perfect fit, so she brings him on as baker. For a short time, Florian is happily up to his elbows in batter, and Kate’s business is booming.

But when things heat up between them, Florian wonders if he should risk his legacy to cook up something truly special.

Read on for my thoughts on A Cupcake Christmas.  No true spoilers, promise.

A Christmas Cupcake is a charming, whimsical, magical tale – one that you’ll be reading again next Christmas… just because you’ll want to revisit Kate and Florian.

Kate is fanatical about her cupcake cart business.  She’s good, really good and with the right plan and help she can make an even bigger success of her business.  Right now the popularity of her delicious, vastly varied types of cupcakes is such a success that she really needs more help in the off-site kitchen and here in the cart as well.  When a charming, enthusiastic, red haired, handsome man presented himself as the answer to her dreams – she discovered that he might be all that… and more.

Florian was almost completed with his year away training.  He had one last empty spot on his resume he needed to complete and then he could happily head back to the North Pole.  Back to the Master Baker position that he knew was his, especially if this delightful lady would let him work with her and learn the magic of her cupcakes.

All he had to do was keep his magic under control.  That should be easy enough.  Oh sure, it had gotten away from him before, and maybe he’d moved on to the next job before any of the humans could begin to ask too many questions.  But he could do this, just a couple more weeks and all of his dreams would come true.

What neither Kate or Florian had considered in this business they were working side by side in was a magical little thing called emotions.  Like the big ones.  Neither thought that maybe they’d fall in love – or have to pick which dream mattered most – business and a successful position or a love that comes along once in a lifetime.  For Kate it means trusting her heart – for Florian it means so much more, for if he gives up one dream he will lose the magic that makes him… him.  And there would be no going back once that decision was made.

A Cupcake Christmas is a magical, sexy and highly emotional romance between a human and a Christmas elf.  The more emotionally involved Florian gets with Kate the more out of control his magic becomes.  He’s going to risk a lot but the prize would be so worth it all.  If you love magical love stories then this is one that needs to be on your reading list… and pulled back out every Christmas for a re-read.  Because what is love if  not magic?

Available for the Kindle