The Parisian Christmas Bake Off by Jenny Oliver is an apparently standalone festive chick-lit comedy set at a baking competition, free courtesy of publisher Harlequin UK's Carina UK imprint, which bears absolutely no relation to the Harlequin mothership's Carina Press imprint, from the way they fail to cross-market.
Technically, this has previously popped up, but that was in a giant batch of Carina
pre-order glitch freebies, and this is now an official offering, so we'll count it as being "new".
Currently free, probably just for the rest of the day @
Amazon UK (not available in other countries or stores I spot-checked, though YMMV, and it seems to be expiring off the freebie-ization period).
Description
Welcome to the most celebrated patisserie competition in Paris – ready, steady, bake!
Watching snowflakes settle on the Eiffel Tower, Rachel Smithson’s cosy English village feels very far way – as, thankfully, does her commitment-phobic ex, probably already kissing someone else under the mistletoe. But Rachel hasn’t come to Paris to mope she’s come to bake. Hard.
Because the search for Paris’s next patisserie apprentice is about to begin! And super-chef judge Henri Salernes is an infamously tough cookie. But Rachel isn’t about to let her confidence (or pastry) crumble. She’s got one week, mounds of melt-in-the-mouth macaroons and towers of perfect profiteroles to prove that she really is a star baker.
As well as clouds of flour, and wafts of chocolate and cinnamon, there’s definitely a touch of Christmas magic in the air… Rachel hasn’t come to Paris looking for a fairy-tale romance, but the city of love might gift-wrap her one anyway…
Not even a dusting of icing sugar could make The Parisian Christmas Bake Off a more perfect Christmas treat!