As Max Jennings spends every spare minute working to become a great pastry chef, she builds a friendship with and finds herself falling in love with a man she once loathed. Max Jennings has secrets from her past that make being in a bad mood her natural state of being. Very few people actually truly understand her or know that her secret dream is to be a pastry chef. When a rare opportunity to work for world-famous Avis Phillips presents itself, Max jumps at the chance. As she bakes brownies and custards, cookies and galettes, she builds an unlikely friendship with a man she once loathed and finds herself falling into something she's spent the last six years avoiding. Will she muster the strength to forgive herself and realize her full potential?