The Rake and the Cake

The Rake and the Cake, an f/f romantasy by Katey Hawthorne

One clever baker out to prove herself. One royal black sheep ducking her duty to the family. One mutually beneficial fake engagement that gets hotter than any magical oven.

For years, Aisling worked to get a stall inside the Everend midsummer market. Now she finally has one, and her cloud cakes are flying off the shelves. She just needs to win a few wildly contested competitions and she’ll finally have enough investment to perfect her proprietary oven–and prove once and for all that she’s just as brilliant as the rest of her family.

Brook, on the other hand, usually spends the midsummer market magically disappearing or hooking up with her flavor-of-the-year. That, and ducking her noble family’s demands that she take advantage of the busy marriage market to finally settle down with someone appropriate. If only she could convince someone to pretend to be engaged to her, to get them off her back.

Attraction blooms hot and fast the moment Aisling and Brook meet, and they quickly reach a mutually beneficial arrangement. But if their engagement is a lie, what else is, and how can they really know?

Marriage Market Misadventures is a light hearted series of queer romances where elves from all over the realm gather at the Everend Midsummer Markets to meet, match, and marry—with plenty of shenanigans along the way.