The Angel Craved Lobster

Recipes with Romance #3

by Shirley Jump

Exotic food and a no-strings attached hunk top Meredith Shordon’s I-want list when she leaves her life behind in Indiana and heads for Boston to experience big city life. At the top of her list? Losing her virginity to Mr. Right Now, without getting tangled up with Mr. Right.

Reformed party animal Travis Campbell won’t be tempted—until he meets the determined Indiana farm girl and realizes taking a bite of temptation only leaves him wanting more. He’s just sworn off women for thirty days, but Meredith is doing her best to tempt him into her bed, before he captures her heart.

The Sweet and Savory Romances will make you laugh, cry, and rev up your appetite with their hunky heroes. As a special addition, satiate your hunger—for food that is— with tried-and-true recipes written by the characters inside.

Prequel: The Groom Wanted Seconds
Book 1: The Bride Wore Chocolate (USA Today and Amazon Top 20 bestselling title!)
Book 2: The Devil Served Desire
Book 3: The Angel Tasted Temptation
Christmas Novella: The Beauty Charmed Santa
Valentine’s Day Novella: The Millionaire Tempted Fate

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Contemporary Romance

369 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

About the author

Shirley Jump is a writing instructor and an award-winning, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon, and USA Today bestselling author who has published more than 80 books in 24 countries. She has spoken all over the world about the power of narrative and how to create compelling books. A former reporter and communications director for a marketing agency, she uses her diverse background to help clients create impactful books that readers can’t down.

She knows the path to publication isn’t all rainbows and unicorns, so to help writers write their best possible book, she offers monthly Manuscript Masterminds through her website, www.WritingCompellingFiction.com.

On her channel, https://YouTube.com/@WritingCompellin..., she unlocks the secrets behind compelling novels and delves into the psychological aspect of overcoming creativity-stoppers like doubt and perfectionism. Follow her channel for more writing exercises, classes, and behind-the-scenes writing lessons or join her Manuscript Mastermind to build your tribe of like-minded writers and receive crucial feedback on your pages.

Reviews

[Angela]

Entertaining? It is really light and breezy. A very quick read. The recipe thing before each chapter was funny at first, but eventually got old and I'd just skip past it to get to the next chapter.

[Cyndi]

What's a girl gotta do when she wants to reinvent herself? Apparently she has to go to Boston and hook up with a hot guy. This book has a few laughs and a cute romance. I liked the recipes that introduced the chapters.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

My biggest problem with this book is Meredith wants change so she dumps her fiancee, job, crown and small town and heads to Boston to help out a cousin. Then she decides the best way to change is to have no-strings-attached sex before she has to head home. I realize she is young, but this is still ridiculous.

The hero, Travis, is a bit more interesting as he's been coasting through job, women and booze and decides to take a break and maybe grow up. His job situation is crazy, but fun to read about and he ends up solving a problem in a really creative way.

[Gemma]

DNF. The heroine was pretty silly, and I felt the hero was jerking her around, promising her one thing with no intention of delivering to “save her from herself” (ugh). Just say no then, dude, and drop the hero complex.

[Sue Lauzon]

Third book in the series didn't disappoint. Quick. easy light hearted romance with recipes included (even though I am not a seafood lover lol)

[Fancy Loch]

Cute!!

[Yvonne Crawford]

Great book

[Loreta]

Miss Holstein 2006 wanted get away from the country and jumped at the chance to assist her pregnant cousin in the city. She wanted change and decided to take advantage of her chance. She also wanted experience and the man she chose to help her had just sworn off women. This story has some interesting predictability involving her country boyfriend, her family, a cow, and seafood. Since the story covers a short period of time it's somewhat fast-paced. As in other books in this series there is a recipe, this time seafood, at the beginning of each chapter.

[Deborah Alexander]

Fabulous recipes for Seafood and A Steamy Romance, Too

I enjoyed this book so much that I completed it in one day! Meredith and Travis are so sweet, and they are surrounded by an array of quirky characters who made me smile. How could I not enjoy a where the heroine wears a cow costume in the middle of Government Square in Boston?

[Julie]

Normally I enjoy a good romance novel here and there but this one was hardcore lame. Although I gave it to my Mom to read after and she seemed to enjoy that there were recipes between each chapter.

[Sherry]

A fantastic read! Funny, fast-paced and up-beat. Quirky characters who are totally believable.

[Linda]

The story in this one was cute. The recipes didn't do much for me since I don't like seafood.

[Kerri]

Didn't even finish. I thought the concept would be cute, but the storyline and characters were extremely stupid, even given the genre.

[Stephanie]

If you like seafood recipes, you might enjoy this book just for the recipes,

The romances in general are predictable. The sex scenes are too detailed for my taste.

[Cathleen]

decided to go with some really really light reading the 1st week of school

[Stace]

Aka angel tasted temptation

[Linda Smatzny]

This is the story of Meredith Shordon and Travis Campbell. Meredith has come to Boston from a small farming town in Indiana while Travis is a bachelor who seems to have a different woman each night. Meredith wants to do something different become someone different from the perfect girl from her town. When Travis meets her sparks fly but he can't seem to take the plunge that she says she wants. The book contains seafood recipes. It was a very quick easy read.