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My Sweetest Rival: A Reality TV Baking Competition Romance
Paperback
Series: My Reality TV Romance
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Sugar Harbor looks like a postcard-and feels like a trap.
Camille Durand came to the hottest dessert competition on streaming to do one thing: win. She's the kind of pastry chef who measures twice, breathes once, and never lets anyone see her hands shake.
Then the show pairs her with Evan Rowland.
Her real-life rival. The only chef who can match her precision step for step. The only man who can read her silence like a recipe.
Production wants them at each other's throats-jealousy, blowups, soundbites that trend. Cameras linger on flour-dusted fingers and too-close teamwork, editing every glance into a story they didn't choose.
But when a mysterious kitchen failure sparks a sabotage accusation, Camille becomes the season's villain overnight.
The internet dogpiles. The cast turns cold. The PR handler offers one way out: lean into the hate, monetize it, survive.
Camille refuses.
And Evan-who should protect his own chances-does the unthinkable.
He stays.
In a world where everything is content, Evan becomes Camille's only off-camera truth: the steady voice in the walk-in fridge, the hand that blocks a lens without making it a scene, the rival who turns into a teammate when the whole set is screaming for blood.
Because the show can weaponize footage...
...but it can't edit what they choose in the dark.
Now Sugar Harbor is tightening the script: partner swaps designed to break them, hot-mic leaks meant to turn them against each other, and a finale built for public declarations and staged commitment beats.
The producers want a redemption arc.
Camille and Evan want something real.
And when winning starts to look like surrender, they'll have to decide what matters more:
the trophy...
or the person who finally sees them without consuming them.
My Sweetest Rival is a high-heat, non-graphic reality TV romance packed with competence attraction, enemies-to-allies tension, forced proximity, protective devotion under pressure, and a love story that refuses to perform on command-perfect for fans of behind-the-scenes drama, culinary competition stakes, and the whole world is watching chemistry.
Readers search for: reality tv romance, baking competition romance, enemies to lovers, rivals to lovers, forced proximity, competence attraction, partners to lovers, villain edit, sabotaged competition, protective hero, slow burn tension, fake reality show set, hot mic scandal, found truth off camera, KU bingeable romance
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