Review: Who knew that with a little imagination, you can forget your troubles for a few hours?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
Written by Tash MOriginally posted on confessionsfromromaholics dot comARC provided kindly by Entangled Publishing  for reviewing purposesI loved Gina Gordon's first book for "Entangled" and was delighted to accept from the publicist her second book , which makes cooking all hot and sexy once again. In this case, it's baking and one special lady who believes cupcakes make the world all betterIn "A Taste of Trouble", we follow two individuals who meet but one of them has ulterior motives and is trying to keep it secret from the other. Liz Crawford is on the road to opening her own cupcake bakery. She's bought the place; now she has to prepare to pass the health and safety inspection and then she's home free. Before the grand opening of the bakery, however, she's going to spend some time at the "Mac Lean", her best friend Patti's family bar. Patti's family has become her second family and they want the best for her, but think she needs that "special guy" in her life and, by chance, she meets him at the bar.During the night, a drunk, rude, regular customer is abusive because he thinks he had lousy service. Jake steps in before things get to ugly. Jake and Liz have an instant attraction but Jake has an ulterior motive. Jake's boss wants to meet Liz and won't say why except that he tried before and she turned him down. Jake works for a media communications firm so this request seems to come out of left field but the position of vice president is being dangled in front of Jake and it would be the crowning achievement of his career. Complicating the boss's request is that Jake is falling for Liz himself and is questioning his judgment as he watches the woman he's falling for have everything go wrong for her.Liz, meanwhile, is having the worst week of her life. Everything seems to be going wrong for her business and if it wasn't for Jake, and her friends, she would be a mess; but someone is working against her.I love Austin (Ozzie), I thought Patti would be one to push more but she took a caring friend role and Ozzie was the one to tell her to get down and dirty with her guy. She followed his "recipe for success" and the result is "baking that is hot and sexy. Who knew that with a little imagination, you can forget your troubles for a few hours?4 couples (more like 4.5 couples)