Sweet Trouble by Susan Mallery

Blood is thicker than water. For Jesse Keyes, is that really the case?

All it took was a misunderstanding for sisters Nicole and Jesse Keys to stop talking to one another, and for her boyfriend Matt to break off all ties with her – even when she’s pregnant with his child.

Desperate and alone, Jesse decides to leave town to start afresh. Now 4 years later, for her son’s sake, she has decided that it’s time for her son to get to know his father and at the same time, for her to try to repair the ties with her sisters and prove to her sisters that she’d matured, become more responsible and accomplished.

Even though this is the final book in the Bakery Sisters trilogy by Susan Mallery, this is the first book that I’ve read for this series. I absolutely loved this book, as you can really relate to Jesse, how she’d been forced to leave town even when she’s pregnant, how she made a living for herself, how she overcome all problems for the sake of her son.

This book also explored how sisters can sometimes tend to overshadow one another, how important family ties are, and how family always stick together right till the end.

Matt’s perspective on how Jesse’s betrayal changed him was interwoven into the book’s plot, from how he changed and how much he would have liked things to be different, and how, together with Jesse, they have to work together to get a future together.

I absolutely loved this book, which shows how Jesse’s determination brought her family back into her life (it was not an easy feat), and to convince her sister to let her be more involved in the family’s bakery business (she’d got new brownie recipes that her sister refuse to credit her for, and to run an online website to continue the bakery business when their bakery burnt down), while at the same time to get her son’s father to spend more time with their son.