Tarts & Tiaras by Laura Greenwood

With her birthday approaching, Evie has to deal with the inevitable: her parents are going to expect her to dance. While she’d much rather be in the kitchens with Nate.
Worse than that, her mother expects her to court suitors, leading to conflicting feelings surrounding what she should tell Nate, and how to deal with the increasing pressures of being a royal.
But after five and a half years apart, Nate isn’t about to give up on the love of his life so easily, and now that he’s got Evie, he’s not about to let her go.

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Tarts & Tiaras is book three in the Falhaven Castle series, a cozy fantasy with a baking dragon, a princess who wants to be in the kitchen over the throne room, and the baker who wants to be there with her. There is a slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance, with a pinch of steam in later books, and an ace heroine.