The Trouble With Dreams: A Christian Romantic Comedy (The Murphy Girls Book 2)

Two bakeries. Four doors. One corner that only fits one of them.

Jenna Wallace has one oven, one shot, and a banner that says GRAND SOFT. What she doesn’t have is enough distance from the man four doors down who bakes better than she does.

Jenna has spent her whole life being the impractical one. She has finally opened Batter Days on Cedar Street with her grandmother’s recipes, her mother’s nerves, and an oven she has named Vesuvius, and she is going to make it work if it kills her, which it might.

Then a man walks in, eats one cupcake, tells her nothing kind, and walks back out.

Levi Grant is the fourth generation behind the counter at Grant’s, sixty years of family bread and a brass bell he refuses to oil because it still sounds like his father. He is quiet, he is decent, and he has buried every ambition he ever had somewhere behind the ovens where nobody has to watch him fail at it.

He also cannot stop thinking about a cupcake that was almost perfect.

The trouble starts with a farmers market slot and gets worse from there. Larkspur takes sides. The bake-off bracket gets printed in the church bulletin, seeded, between the food bank drive and a get-well for Odell’s hip. The pastor preaches the parable of the talents at a man who has spent fifteen years burying his, and Jenna finds herself falling for the one person in town with every reason to want her to fail.

She needs the corner to survive. He needs to stop being safe.

Can two bakers four doors apart both get everything they want — or is somebody’s dream about to come out of the oven flat?

The Trouble With Dreams is a Christian romantic comedy and the second book in The Murphy Girls series — clean, Christ-centered, with a happily-ever-after and no cliffhanger.