The Bakery of Missing Tomorrows

What if tomorrow arrived as a memory before you ever chose it?

Tobin Reed only wants to celebrate his bakery’s anniversary with good friends, ordinary cake, and considerably fewer municipal forms than Angela Lark considers appropriate.

Instead, the first slice gives everyone a memory of tomorrow.

One customer remembers accepting a marriage proposal that was never made. Another remembers leaving Alderwren. Mr. Pell remembers retiring from the archive. And Angela remembers waking beside Jonas in a shared home they have never chosen—while Primrose Bend stands empty.

The memories are warm, vivid, and utterly convincing.

They also contradict one another.

With magical tortoiseshell Moth refusing every bite—and mysteriously stealing slices for reasons of her own—Angela follows the impossible recipe to a forgotten bakehouse beneath Lantern Lane. There, an old enchanted oven once helped Alderwren residents imagine possible futures before making difficult choices.

Someone has awakened it again.

Now the more people talk about a particular tomorrow, the more real it begins to feel. Records rewrite themselves. Unmade promises acquire weight. Unchosen roles become harder to refuse. And Tobin’s bakery starts becoming the heart of a future in which everyone needs him forever.

To stop Alderwren from remembering a day that never happened, Angela must prove that even the most beautiful future is still only a possibility—and that no memory, however convincing, gets to choose tomorrow for you.

The Bakery of Missing Tomorrows is the fourth Alderwren Threshold Mystery, a warm cozy fantasy filled with magical baking, impossible memories, found family, gentle romance, feline mischief, and a mystery where the most dangerous thing on the menu might be certainty itself.