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When Anne inherits her grandmother’s small-town bakery, she expects long hours and quiet days. What she doesn’t expect is the ancient book hidden among the old recipes—or the strange formula carefully noted in the margins.

Curious and restless, Anne decides to test it. The results are immediate, impossible, and far more addictive than she ever imagined. What begins as a private experiment quickly grows into something larger, more reckless, and increasingly difficult to control.

As word of unexplained disappearances begins to spread, Anne finds herself drawn deeper into a secret world of power, desire, and consequence. And when a stranger arrives who seems to understand exactly what she’s been doing, the stakes rise higher than she ever intended.

Contains: (Shrinking women, men)