Romancing the Clone

By: Ruby Dixon

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Simone loves a good opportunity. When she sees that there's a hole in the market on Risda III for a bakery, she steps in to fill the void. With a cart full of fresh baked goods, she rakes in the credits. Who cares if she doesn't know the difference between a biscuit and a babka? She's got hustle and a winning smile.

Ruth-Ann cares. She cares a lot.

It irritates her that Simone has a baked goods business...and that it's succeeding. Does no one else see that Simone's crusts are soggy? Her cookies as flat as pancakes? It bothers Ruth-Ann so much that she makes sure to point out to Simone everything she's doing wrong. Daily.

Simone despises Ruth-Ann and her know-it-all attitude.

It's mutual.

Until the day Simone's cart doesn't show up to its usual spot and Ruth-Ann realizes that she might care a little too much....

Contains mature themes.

©2025 Ruby Dixon (P)2025 Tantor Media

Cute

Really liked this book. It was cute. Has spice and for a short story it had a lot of character development and relationships growth.

Toasty, but mostly mundane, FF grumpy sunshine

“You and your bakery buddy aren’t hot-crossing buns? Is that a thing?”
Yes, there’s a lot of callbacks to the Corsairs and Risdaverse series, mentions of aliens, discussions of human slavery or cloning, and cameos from some of the series’s couples.

“Don’t be weird Ruth-Ann!”
But, at its core, this is two human ladies, a bakery, and a pet doing all the cute things you’d find in small town romance. It was sweet and perfectly fine for a novella. I got confused as to who was talking and would have liked better differentiation between Simone and Ruth-Ann’s voices.