My Sweetest Rival: A Reality TV Baking Competition Romance

On Sugar Harbor, the cameras catch every mistake. The producers invent the rest. Pastry chef Camille Durand came to the streaming baking competition to prove her skill and put her own name above a pastry counter. The last thing she needs is to be paired with Evan Rowland: her maddeningly controlled rival, the chef who once beat her by half a point, and the only man who notices when her hands start to shake. Production wants sparks, sabotage, and a romance viewers can consume. Camille and Evan want clean work and honest scores. But forced partner challenges turn rivalry into trust, a kitchen failure becomes a public accusation, and a viral edit makes them look like the toxic couple of the season. When the show offers Camille an easy escape - betray Evan and play the role they wrote for her - she refuses. Evan refuses to leave her alone in the glare. Now they must decide whether protecting something real is worth risking the competition, their reputations, and the futures they came to build. My Sweetest Rival is a contemporary rivals-to-lovers romance with a reality-TV baking competition, forced proximity, competence attraction, protective devotion, slow-burn chemistry, and a hard-won happy ending. It is Book 2 in the My Reality TV Romance series.