Recipe for Disaster
Seven courses. One critic. Every dish is a message she doesn't want to hear. Sloane Mitchell has made three chefs cry on social media and ended two restaurant careers, and she has never once lost sleep over it. So when her editor sends her to a converted greenhouse called Bramble & Bone for a press preview the week before Valentine's Day, she knows the story already. Reclaimed wood, farm names on the menu, twelve months to closing. Then she sees the chef through the open kitchen.
For readers who want a second-chance romance with a real kitchen in it: sharp dialogue, a heroine with a career she's good at, a hero who refuses to play it safe, and a love scene that earns its place. One tasting menu, three sittings, free to read. Content warning: the final chapter has some explicit content.
This story was written for an online Valentine's Day Contest and took first place. There is some spice, but doesn't that day deserve some?