David Miles and Richter Layover are young lovers from West Hollywood who move to Snowden to open a liberal and fun bakery called Cupcakes. What follows is a string of extraordinary men who enter their lives and change their matrimony and the bakery forever. Realtor Anthony Jarr, handsome and alluring, who lives above Cupcakes and considers himself an exceptional lover. When he meets Ryan Glayson, a professional cellist with a relentless urge for sweets, Jarr falls in love for the first time, turning his life into a topsy-turvy spin of surprising romance and selflessness. The magnetic and strange Stefan Pavlov is one of Cupcakes' regulars. Although he comes across as being sweet and charming, he has secrets that are quite damaging, which are exposed during a heated summer along the lake. Erich Misslow, a part-time employee at Cupcakes, becomes enamored with Pavlov, who is almost three times his age. Erich has always enjoyed the company of older men, but does Pavlov have too much peculiar baggage to share? Cupcakes also draws in Ken Eclipse, a charming underwear model with a taste for sweet men and sultry sex. Eclipse searches for Mr. Right like a slice of cinnamon cake for his appetite and personal needs. Can he find the man of his dreams at Cupcakes, or will he forever be single, enjoying the bakery's treats alone? These employees, friends, and lovers combine together with their individual recipes of bliss and loss, and the little bakery called Cupcakes comes to life as the sugary flavor of a gay neighborhood along the lake bursts into life.

Cupcakes

David had a little more couth and said, “It’s upsetting to know that this happened.”


Timothy’s eyes blazed with fury and an explosive energy surfaced. Approximately six minutes later he would be toted away to the Snowden Police Department, charged with assault.  39: Timothy’s Rage


Prior to the employees’ breaks and Timothy’s unexpected arrival at Cupcakes, Jarr was boxing an assortment of three-layer cakes, seven in all, for a future pickup by Tan Billings, the head chairperson for the Young Men’s Auxiliary of Snowden. The YMAS was having an annual dinner for over two hundred guests. Tan was to pick up the seven cakes at approximately five-thirty, which Jarr was preparing.


Chapter 28