Lisbon Press

On the Monday after her parents’ Christmas party, Serenity was elbow deep in holiday orders by the time the shop opened and people started coming in. She was doing her best to keep the orders organized, spreading them across the prep table in an attempt to sort them by date. Ashley always used to handle details like that, and from what she’d told Serenity at the Christmas party, she was using those skills to great effect at Abbott’s and taking their fledgling bakery department by storm.

The Sugar Plum Bakery, on the other hand, looked like a storm had blown through it.