The Gingerbread Bakery
- Published
- 11 September 2025
- Pages
- 358
- ISBN-13
- 9780008728083
- Type
- novel
About this book
As the fifth book in Dream Harbor, The Gingerbread Bakery follows The Apple Pie Ice Cream Parlor, continuing the series' trope catalogue -- grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers -- against another cozy, food-centered small-town setting.
Key facts about The Gingerbread Bakery
The Gingerbread Bakery is a novel by Laurie Gilmore. Readers have had it since 11 September 2025. It runs to 358 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Gingerbread Bakery. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780008728083 to find the main one.
The Gingerbread Bakery is book 6 of 7 in the Dream Harbor series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Pumpkin Spice Café (2023).
The Daisy Chain Flower Shop is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 5 May 2026. Meanwhile, The Apple Pie Ice Cream Parlor (global English edition) comes next, with an announced date of 20 April 2027.
Additionally, Laurie Gilmore writes Maple Hollow as a separate series. Those series sit on our contemporary romance and paranormal romance shelves. Meanwhile, Wild Wicked Mate is the latest published Laurie Gilmore book on file, from 20 October 2026.
About Laurie Gilmore
Laurie Gilmore is the pen name of American author Melissa McTernan, used for her small-town contemporary romance novels, most notably the Dream Harbor series set in a cozy, fictional New England coastal town explicitly inspired by the TV series Gilmore Girls. See every Laurie Gilmore book in order.
Its place in Dream Harbor
The Gingerbread Bakery is book 6 in the Dream Harbor series. It follows The Apple Pie Ice Cream Parlor. It is followed by The Daisy Chain Flower Shop. See the full Dream Harbor reading order.
Dream Harbor is Laurie Gilmore's runaway-hit cozy romance series, set in a picture-perfect New England small town where every book is named after the local business at its heart — a pumpkin-spice-scented café, a bookstore hiding mysterious coded notes, a Christmas tree farm, a pancake house, a bakery, a flower shop. The Pumpkin Spice Café kicked things off in 2023 and became a BookTok phenomenon, and the series has kept its momentum ever since: each installment pairs a new couple while the town's meddling…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008728090
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008728083