Backstory
In present-day Cloverbrook, a village known for its annual Sweet Harvest Festival, Margot Levine, twenty-nine years old and fiercely dedicated to her craft, runs La Petite Patisserie with military precision and unwavering perfectionism. Her motivation stems from a desperate need to restore the Levine family's reputation in the baking world after her father's betrayal nearly destroyed everything. Her immediate goal is winning the Sweet Harvest Festival to prove the Levine name still means excellence, but her deeper aspiration involves finally stepping out from her father's shadow and establishing her own legacy. Raised in a family where baking was art, religion, and identity all rolled into one, Margot learned early that mistakes weren't just failures, they were catastrophes. She keeps people at arm's length, afraid that letting anyone close will reveal the cracks in her perfectly maintained facade. Behind her confident exterior lies someone terrified of repeating her father's mistakes and secretly lonely in her pursuit of perfection.
