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Alexis Hall is the author of stacks of beloved queer romances, including Boyfriend Material and A Lady for a Duke. One of those romance series is Winner Bakes All, which started with Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, and Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble. Fans have eagerly anticipated the third book and the wait is almost over: Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot comes out in December of 2025, and today, I’m happy to reveal the cover!
This series takes place on the set of a UK reality show baking competition—as a fan of The Great British Bake-Off and an avid reader of queer romances, I’m already sold. Audrey Lane has ended her relationship with her judgmental ex-girlfriend and walked away from her high-powered job for a quieter life, but drunkenly applying to Bake Expectations changes everything. Not only is she shaken out of her routine, but she also bonds with a queer elder role model there—and she meets Jennifer Hallet, the producer with a terrible attitude that Audrey nevertheless can’t seem to stay away from.
Intrigued? Check out the cover and the synopsis for Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot below!
Audrey Lane is perfectly fine. Really. So what if she left her high-powered job as a Very Important Journalist—and her even higher-powered long-term girlfriend—to live a quiet life as a reporter for the second-biggest newspaper in Shropshire? And so what if she keeps hearing that same higher-powered long-term now-ex-girlfriend in her head night and day, constantly judging just how small Audrey’s allowed her life to become?
She’s fine. She’s happy. She’s perfectly within her groove. Do not-in-their-groove people get weekday drunk and impulsively apply for the UK’s most beloved baking show?
All right, so maybe she’s not completely fine, but being on Bake Expectations is opening her world again in ways she never anticipated. First through fellow contestant Doris, whose personal story of queer love during WW2 captures Audrey’s heart, imagination and journalistic interest like nothing has in ages. Then through Jennifer Hallet, the most foul-tempered (and fouler-mouthed) producer, woman, and menace Audrey has ever met. Jennifer should be off-limits, but her fire lights something unexpected inside of Audrey, making her want to burn back a million times brighter. A million times hotter. A million times more herself than she’s been in a long, long time.
Alexis Hall lives in a little house in the south east of England where he writes books about people who bake far better than he does. He can, however, whip up a passable brownie if pressed.