Faultline: Steel and Fire

Arithmetic fails where chemistry begins.

Lukas measures his life with a brass ruler. To this rigid Northern boy, baking is pure thermodynamic science, and passion is just a lack of discipline.
Siena measures her life in handfuls of flour and dashes of honey. To this fiery Southern girl, bread needs a soul, and rules are meant to be broken.

When both are hired as apprentices at the legendary Bicolor Bakery, located squarely in a duty-free neutral zone between their warring nations, the owners issue a challenge: whoever can run the shop without burning it down wins the deed.

What starts as a bitter rivalry over oven space quickly spirals into a fight for survival. Forced to navigate absurd bureaucratic audits, illegal salt-explosions, and a high-stakes baking exhibition, Lukas and Siena must learn to merge the 'Steel' of the North with the 'Fire' of the South.

But there's a problem. Lukas's perfect logic is crumbling under the weight of Siena's chaotic charm, and the 21 millimeters of distance he carefully maintains between them is starting to feel like a canyon begging to be crossed.

Get ready for a high-stakes culinary rom-com about surviving bureaucracy, perfecting sourdough, and the thermodynamic physics of falling in love.

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