Antoinette Santori has spent years perfecting the art of looking harmless.
The shy baker.
The sweet Omega.
The woman more comfortable piping sugar roses than raising her voice.
Nobody in Oakridge Hollow needs to know she was born a mafia princess.
Antoinette escaped a family where loyalty was currency, marriages were bargains, and her future belonged to whichever pack came to collect.
Now she has flour in her hair, a quiet bakery, and a life small enough to finally feel like her own.
Then summer gives her Felix.
Their clay-covered afternoons and stolen kisses are supposed to be nothing more than a fling.
Until summer ends…
and Felix introduces her to the rest of his pack.
🏺 Felix — the shy, freckled ceramic artist with a pottery studio behind the dunes, who reminds her that beautiful things don’t have to be perfect.
🍎 Silas Mercer — an orchardist, beekeeper, and preserve maker who grows half the ingredients she dreams of baking with—and has enough patience to wait for her to decide what she wants.
📚 Milo Whitaker — a rare-book conservator and hand bookbinder who restores forgotten stories for a living…and sees straight through every chapter of hers she’s trying to hide.
With them, Antoinette discovers a life she never thought she was allowed to want.
Slow mornings.
Apple picking.
Pottery lessons.
Rainy afternoons surrounded by old books.
A home.
Then the first threat arrives.
Someone knows who she really is.
Someone has found her in Oakridge Hollow.
And when the warnings stop targeting Antoinette and start targeting the three men she’s falling for, hiding is no longer enough.
Because the sweet little baker may spend her days making cinnamon rolls and wedding cakes…
but she was raised by men who taught their daughters how to survive a war.
And if her past thinks Antoinette Santori is going to stand quietly by while they hurt the men she loves—
they’ve forgotten exactly whose daughter she is.
Sometimes starting over isn’t about becoming someone new.
Sometimes it’s about deciding which parts of the old you are worth keeping.
A cozy, autumn-kissed Omegaverse romance with a dangerous edge, filled with found family, artisan Alphas, hidden identities, protective pack energy, small-town sweetness, and one very underestimated mafia princess.
🍂 TROPES & VIBES:
🧁 Sweet Baker / Secret Mafia Princess • 🏺 Summer Fling to Forever • 🍎 Orchard Dates & Farm-to-Bakery Cozy • 📚 Bookish Alpha • 🖤 Hidden Identity • 💌 Stalker Threats • 💔 Dangerous Ex-Pack • 🏡 Found Family • 🔥 Touch Her Pack & Find Out • ✨ Guaranteed HEA
