The Night I Burned the Cake

Beth Ann Pruitt's tenth anniversary present was a wedding cake baked by the other woman. She took a photo of it. She posted it. She drove it, still in the box, to her brother's tow shop outside Abilene and never went home again. Her brother's club gives her a room, a job answering phones, and a wide berth. Wade, his sergeant-at-arms, gives her coffee and doesn't ask for anything else. But her ex-husband wants the house. Then the car. Then the last of her dignity. Beth Ann files her own paperwork. Represents herself. Wins the house back on a Tuesday morning in a county courthouse with a bad air conditioner. She walks out to Wade's truck with her keys in her own hand. A divorce romance about the woman who bakes her own ending.