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The Bureaucrat and the Baker: A Cozy Fantasy Romance
Paperback
Series: Tales of Fableton, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She's the Crown's most ruthless tax auditor. He's a giant, battle-scarred orc who just wants to bake pastries. Let the negotiations begin.
Lenora Vance hasn't taken a day off in ten years. As a Senior Auditor for the Ministry, her life is a meticulously organized schedule of tax codes, gray coats, and rigid rules. When she's dispatched to the snowy, backwater village of Oakhaven to audit a failing tavern, she expects a routine eviction. She doesn't expect him.
Brax left his violent mercenary past behind to pursue his true passion: pastry. He runs The Brazen Hearth with a gentle hand, trading cinnamon rolls for firewood and using ancient, priceless dwarven artifacts to whisk meringue. He's massive, intimidating, and infuriatingly kind. He's also four hundred crowns in debt to a corrupt magistrate who wants to bulldoze the tavern to the ground.
Lenora's job is to finalize the ruin of Brax's livelihood. But as she spends time in the warm, coffee-scented tavern and finds herself increasingly distracted by the gentle giant's soft smiles and legendary honey cakes, the gray walls around her heart begin to crack.
With the magistrate's deadline looming, Lenora must make a choice. She can do her job and return to her cold, lonely life in the Capital. Or, for the first time in her career, she can weaponize the law to protect a cozy tavern, a one-eared cat, and an orc who has already stolen her heart.
The Bureaucrat and the Baker is the first standalone novel in the Tales of Fableton series. Pull up a chair by the hearth if you love:
Low-Stakes Cozy Fantasy
Grumpy x Sunshine (where she is the grumpy one)
Found Family & Small Village Charm
Clever Bureaucratic Loopholes
A romance sweeter than spiced honey-bread
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