I honestly don't remember how this book began. I remember what I was hoping to find, because I love baking, I love cupcakes, I'd like to open my bakery... but wow, this book. Looking back at it, it seems like a different writer took over about halfway through. 
 Short version: Bloated, in need of severe editing, lackluster characters, no conflict. 
 In the beginning, all Issy has going for her is that she's nailing her boss. Her uber attractive "male model, sharp lines" boss who is, apparently, half tiger or something? The way it's described is somewhat strange. Anyway, Issy is laid off from her job and she gets upset with her boss, Graeme, because hey, they were sleeping together and he never told her this was coming. Because logic! Seriously, chick, you expected him to say something? 
 So Issy comes into a big wad of money thanks to the company she worked for and spends a lot of time moping. Like, an immense amount of time just doing the whole "pajamas and ice cream and soap operas" stuff. Eventually she gets the idea to open a bakery because she's an awesome baker and everyone tells her so. Everyone also tells her she has a cloud of black hair. She knows she has a cloud of black hair. Gosh, I'm so glad Colgan made sure I knew Issy has a cloud of black hair every two pages--any slight passing breeze made it whip around her head like, I don't know, a black cloud? Of hair? 
 After not-so-interesting events, Issy gets a little rundown shop in Pear Tree Court, which is off the beaten path and is so boho chic with it's little tree in the middle. The shop struggles in the beginning, but after a horrible (and somewhat coincidental since Issy was just thinking that her shop was a failure) accident nearby, the shop begins to boom. 
 Meanwhile we're introduced to some lackluster characters. Pearl and her son Luis, who are implied to be on some sort of government support system, lives in a tiny apartment with her mother, and struggles with the relationship between her and Luis's father. Caroline, an evil health obsessed harpy who Pearl and Issy absolutely cannot stand but works in the shop anyway (yet never becomes a decent character like Colgan wants you to believe). Des, a real estate agent who apparently knows nothing about caring for his own child. And Austin, Issy's love interest and banker. 
 There is no conflict in this book. It's incredibly boring. The only conflict happens in the last forty pages and is immediately resolved through some bullcrap means--I honestly don't know what happened. Colgan's style is bloated and confusing. Let me take some text for you that I tried to read aloud to see if it made sense, but no, it really didn't: 
 And sure enough, at six o'clock, close to his bedtime, as he'd pointed out several times, when the last rays of sun were hitting the narrow passage from the street, a car backed up, completely illegal, into the passageway and a large wheelchair-friendly door pinged at the back. 
 I understand what the passage is trying to say but Colgan goes about it in all the wrong ways. And the POV is EVERYWHERE. Issy meets a new person--we get their backstory as if Issy knows all of that, but this is a third-person story that sticks with Issy. Until there are page breaks everywhere to jump POV, which is incredibly messy and reminds me of amateur ebooks. At one point the POV switched so many times in paragraph that I forgot who we were following. 
 This book is a mess. Twice as long than it needs to be. There's no conflict, it's boring, the prose is messy. I was hoping to be enchanted with a bakery and instead found a bug in my cupcake.