The Pike: Ships In The Night
The playfully evil sisters, Zoey and Eve, play matchmaker from their bakery, The Pike, in Pike Place Market in Seattle.<br /><br />Ligaya is a quantum physicist working in a research lab at the University of Washington. She is seduced by the numbers and math with a drive that excludes everything in her life including social interactions.<br /><br />Emotions have always been hard for her to understand or express. When she meets an ex firefighter, Allison, she finds herself fighting to understand all the new feelings rising inside.<br /><br />Allison has a primal drive to help and protect people and Ligaya’s innocence is like a drug to her.<br /><br />With the the non-subtle meddling from the women at the Pike, Ligaya and Allison find themselves pulled inexorably to each other.<br /><br />(The Pike series is set in the same world as Music of the Soul and London Harmony, and can be read as a standalone book.)