Foodie

[close] With relatable characters and scrumptious recipes at the start of each chapter, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café is pure delight to women’s fiction readers everywhere. This summer, Jenny Colgan is bringing her hilarious and heartfelt stories—with a dash of deliciousness—to the United States!

Baking is in Issy Randall’s blood. Growing up above her grandfather’s bakery taught Issy that a delicious pastry could make any day better. So when she’s laid off from her desk job—by the man she thought was her boyfriend, no less—Issy knows now is the time to start her own little café.

Armed with her grandfather’s tried and true recipes, as well as her own new dishes, Issy’s new dream job should be a piece-of-cake, right? But managing a café, delivering products on time and trying to have a new love life aren’t exactly going as Issy planned. And when her ex comes back into the picture, perhaps with his own motives, Issy’s search for the perfect pastry and a groundbreaking idea to save her café are much more than she bargained for…
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[close] Enter to win a *signed* Trade Paperback of FEEL THE HEAT, the first in the new Hot in the Kitchen series from Forever Romance/Grand Central about a Chicago Italian family and the sexy, sizzling chefs who love them.

IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT . . .

Photographer Lili DeLuca spends all her time managing her family's Italian restaurant, instead of following her dream of getting an MFA. When famous British chef Jack Kilroy unexpectedly challenges her father to a cook-off, Lili decides she's tired of playing it safe and vows to seduce the tempting Brit. But once a video of her and Jack kissing goes viral and her luscious butt starts trending on Twitter, Lili fears she's cooked up a recipe for disaster . . .

. . . GET INTO THE BEDROOM

Jack Kilroy's celebrity has left him feeling used and used up. While Lili's oh-so-sexy moans when she tastes his delicious creations turn him on, he's even more aroused by how unimpressed this beautiful, funny woman is with his fame. He knows they could be amazing together, if she could only see past his bitch fork-wielding fan base. Now, as he's about to start a new prime time TV cooking show, can Jack convince Lili to realize her own ambitions - and turn up the heat in his kitchen?

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Praise for FEEL THE HEAT:

"I loved the dynamic with these characters and their families. They will have you crying they are so funny!" - HarlequinJunkie.com

"I went from spewing my drink one minute, to needing ice water because the scenes were so hot the next..." - Read Your Writes Book Reviews

"...one of the best culinary romances that I have read." - BS Book Reviewers
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[close] To celebrate the release of FINAL SENTENCE (the first in Agatha Award winner Daryl Wood Gerber's new series, A COOKBOOK NOOK MYSTERY, which debuts in July), I am giving away three copies of FINAL SENTENCE. Foodies and culinary mystery readers enjoy!

FINAL SENTENCE:

What’s the story? In need of a change, Jenna Hart leaves the high-pressure world of advertising to help her aunt open a culinary bookshop and café. Back with her family in Crystal Cove, California, Jenna seems to have all the right ingredients for a fresh start—until someone adds a dash of murder.

FINAL SENTENCE review:

"Final Sentence was a page turning puzzler of a mystery that I could not put down."
~Jenn McKinlay, NYT bestselling author Cupcake Mysteries and Library Lovers Mysteries

FYI – I, Daryl Wood Gerber, also write under the pen name Avery Aames. I write the Agatha Award-winning, nationally bestselling CHEESE SHOP MYSTERY series.

SAVOR THE MYSTERY!
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