{"id":7418,"date":"2019-10-08T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2019-10-07T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:31:08","slug":"new-release-baking-me-crazy-by-karla-sorensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/08\/new-release-baking-me-crazy-by-karla-sorensen\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release: Baking Me Crazy by Karla Sorensen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IruiZF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Opt.jpg?resize=189%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Baking Me Crazy by Karla Sorensen\" class=\"wp-image-7420\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Opt.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 378w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Opt.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Click to purchase<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title: Baking Me Crazy<br>Author: Karla Sorensen<br>Genre: Romantic Comedy<br>Release Date:<\/strong> <strong>October 8, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Friends to lovers at its best&#8211; a sweet indulgence I couldn\u2019t put down!\u201d &#8211; R.S. Grey, USA Today Bestselling Author<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baking Me Crazy, the first in the romantic comedy Donner Bakery Series of standalones, from Karla Sorensen is available now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m Levi Buchanan, and until five years ago, I thought the legend of my family&#8217;s curse was a load of crazy, Southern nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No curse can make you fall in love at first sight. No curse can force a true, deep, passionate, all-consuming love that will haunt you all the days of your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I met Jocelyn Abernathy and I realized how completely wrong I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is, Jocelyn guards her feelings like well-armed soldier. She&#8217;s the most beautiful, stubborn, infuriating woman I&#8217;ve ever met. Every time she talks, I want to kiss the living daylights out of her. But I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because when we met, she didn&#8217;t need true love. She needed a best friend. And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been to her&#8230; for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when Jocelyn meets a handsome stranger her first day working at Donner Bakery and she lets him buy her a dill pickle cupcake, I realize with ominous regret that I may have missed my window with my best friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I can&#8217;t get her to see past our friendship, my new curse may be to watch the love of my life move on with someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8216;Baking Me Crazy&#8217; is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book#1 in the Donner Bakery series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Teaser-Opt.jpg?resize=640%2C496&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Baking Me Crazy by Karla Sorensen\" class=\"wp-image-7421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Teaser-Opt.jpg?resize=1024%2C794&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Teaser-Opt.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Teaser-Opt.jpg?resize=768%2C596&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Teaser-Opt.jpg?w=1891&amp;ssl=1 1891w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Baking-Me-Crazy-Teaser-Opt.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>Share or Pin this image!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Karla Sorensen:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karla Sorensen has been an avid reader her entire life, preferring stories with a happily-ever-after over just about any other kind. And considering she has an entire line item in her budget for books, she realized it might just be cheaper to write her own stories. It doesn\u2019t take much to keep her happy\u2026a book, a really big glass of wine, and at least thirty minutes of complete silence every day. She still keeps her toes in the world of health care marketing, where she made her living pre-babies. Now she stays home, writing and mommy-ing full time (this translates to almost every day being a \u2018pajama day\u2019 at the Sorensen household\u2026don\u2019t judge). She lives in West Michigan with her husband, two exceptionally adorable sons and big, shaggy rescue dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Connect with Karla Sorensen: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Website (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/smartypantsromance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Instagram (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/karla_sorensen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Facebook (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lU6xAS\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Twitter (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2khRSPL\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookbub.com\/authors\/karla-sorensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"BookBub (opens in a new tab)\">BookBub<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2opzZ3j\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00UQOMN3C\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=li2&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;linkId=177beb2cdd32109eb741b8d5fda5a39e&#038;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B00UQOMN3C&#038;Format=_SL160_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US\" ><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US&#038;l=li2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00UQOMN3C\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01GGZUA7A\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=li2&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;linkId=2d765b268dbc8cd653064cc7408379fc&#038;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B01GGZUA7A&#038;Format=_SL160_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US\" ><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US&#038;l=li2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B01GGZUA7A\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07DN1FYWK\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=li2&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;linkId=f60e3e4a3ee3f75cded03067adec4f18&#038;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B07DN1FYWK&#038;Format=_SL160_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US\" ><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US&#038;l=li2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B07DN1FYWK\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B074YJ33ZR\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=li2&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;linkId=10cb60ddcada46de9dad894246041465&#038;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B074YJ33ZR&#038;Format=_SL160_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US\" ><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=allthethiin02-20&#038;language=en_US&#038;l=li2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B074YJ33ZR\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Baking Me CrazyAuthor: Karla SorensenGenre: Romantic ComedyRelease Date: October 8, 2019 Synopsis: &#8220;Friends to lovers at its best&#8211; a sweet indulgence I couldn\u2019t put down!\u201d &#8211; R.S. Grey, USA Today Bestselling Author Baking Me Crazy, the first in the romantic comedy Donner Bakery Series of standalones, from Karla Sorensen is available now! 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