Bree Apollo is an average fifteen-year-old girl: she loves chocolate, baking cupcakes, and her neighbor, the hunky and all around popular seventeen-year-old Foster Quinn. Except Foster is clueless about her feelings for him, instead treating her like a kid sister and begging for her homemade desserts. As a fellow chocolate lover, he should be Bree's for the taking, if it weren't for his oh-so-perfect girlfriend.
After she overhears Foster making fun of her to his friends, she's devastated. And not even chocolate can take away the pain. She intends to wallow in grief for a boy that was never hers to begin with, but Austen, her eccentric new neighbor has other ideas.
The strange boy down the street always wears a black fedora, walks barefoot, and focuses all his energy on building a treehouse in his backyard. For some reason, he's elected Bree to help him. At first, she turns him down because he acts too awkward and takes everything she says literally. But after learning of his autism, she decides to help with his construction (forgiving him for not being a chocolate fan), even though she doesn't know a think about power tools.
As Bree and Austen grow closer, Foster notices Bree no longer worships the ground he walks on. He wants her to go back to that doting version of Bree, but Austen has become more important to her than she's ready to admit.
Austen may just be the one to help her move on from Foster.
Like two pieces of a puzzle, they fit together perfectly.
India had always been the quiet loner. Never really having friends but Holly and Reece. To everybody else, she didn't have the RIGHT look. Highschool was a constant verbal bullying norm for Indy and drawing was her ONLY solace away from it.
15 years later, Holly is getting married and she wants her best friend to design her dress. Sweet Escapes boomed when India was barely 25, all plus size women of every shape wants India to create their dream dresses. And her gift, brings their dreams to a reality, but India knows it'll never be a reality for her. All the good guys who don't care about a woman's looks, are already married or gonna be.
Holly's younger cousin, Ymir decides to open his second bakery in Baltimore, ChocolateDreams is the biggest bakery in DC. Baltimore would be another great location to open up a second bakery. Ymir meets his cousin's best friend, India and the attraction is INSTANT for Ymir.
Indy is flattered by Ymir's compliments, but he's just another guy, whose just probably playing with her feelings. She's older and Ymir is no where near her age, so he can't be serious. It's a six year difference that Ymir obviously ain't stressin bout. He's gon get with Indy, even if he gotta be patient and show her that he's true about his intentions.
What happens when you throw in an egotistical, self centered jerk, who has a DARK secret......an ex who just can't understand that she'll NEVER get back into Ymir's good graces? And a sweet, but very confident man that's on a mission of having India becoming THAT baby......?
Ymir's flirtatiously sweet energy is something new and different to India and she slowly starts to accept the natural attraction to Ymir. Until a REAL jealousy sets in. A jealousy that's a threat to the Baltimore area and India.....
Welcome to Indy Baby......