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Vega family love stories volume 1
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English
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"Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers. Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo--her...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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While Petra handles the breakfast rush at the Cackleberry Club, the café's other two owners, Suzanne and Toni, head to Memorial Cemetery to help prepare for its 150th-anniversary celebration. But as they search the winding paths for the historical society tent, they discover something else out of place. The body of ex-prison warden Lester Drummond is lying facedown in someone else's freshly dug grave. In the small town of Kindred, everyone knows...
Author
Series
Sisters at heart volume 3
Language
English
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It wasn't Cassie Haddon's fault that she had managed to reach the age of twenty-five without possessing any useful skills. Until the war, she had always had servants to wait on her. Since then, she and her widowed mother had moved from place to place, relying on family to care for them. Now she's forced to find work to support them both. What isn't in her plans is falling for Jacob West, a local restaurateur and grocer. She needs a job and he needs...
Author
Series
Chocolate romances volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Summer Corey takes over ownership of the Parisian restaurant where chef Luc Leroi works, their workplace clashes turn into private passions.
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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"A coffee war is brewing in Maple Falls, where Anita and Tanner are serving up plenty of steam to keep the town buzzing"--
Tanner Castillo's place behind the counter at the Sunshine Diner is a fixture in the small town of Maple Falls, Arkansas. After years of saving every penny, he has purchased the diner and make the necessary renovations to bring it into the 21st century. Anita Bedford has always been happy to work as a waitress at the diner, especially...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Margaret Vaughn has hired Daisy to provide afternoon tea for her theater group. A local girl who left long ago for an acting career in New York, Margaret has returned home--with a multimillionaire husband in tow. But while Daisy bustles around Margaret's historic farmhouse, she senses that there's tension behind the scenes. Then she discovers the hostess on the floor of the pantry--dead and covered with clotted cream. Barely recovered from her previous...
30) Recipe for love
Author
Series
For love novels (Shamara Ray) volume 1
Publisher
Strebor Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Jade, a sassy restaurateur, has mastered her share of recipes except for one: she can't figure out the essential ingredients when it comes to love." --P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Business volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lutishia Lovely dishes up a decadent helping of love, lust, greed, and secrecy in this riveting tale of a family's soul food dynasty...
32) Sweet dreams
Author
Series
Colorado mountain volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When she takes a job as a waitress in a biker bar after leaving her cheating husband, Lauren Grahame goes up against Tatum Jackson, the bar's arrogant co-owner, who thinks she does not belong in the bar or in Carnal, Colorado.
34) The restaurant
Author
Publisher
Piping Plover Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Three sisters: Mandy, Emma, and Jill are all at turning points in their lives when they inherit a Nantucket restaurant from the grandmother. The will stipulates they must work together for a year at the restaurant, or lose their shares to the chef, Paul.
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Series
Sweetwater Springs volume 5
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Readers are invited back to Sweetwater Springs, North Carolina, where they will meet a quirky café owner and a handsome park ranger who get a second chance at love.
39) Sweet revenge
Author
Series
Sins brothers volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Genetically engineered by the government to be a perfect soldier with an expiration date, Matt Dean, a member of a secret black-ops military unit, goes rogue on a quest to find the one person who can save his kind and ends up in Charmed, Idaho, where he falls for a beautiful bar owner.
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Liz looked up to find his eyes on hers, with an expression completely undecipherable. Instantly, the words she had been planning to say became [e]mbedded in her throat, her knees weakened, and all common sense evaporated." -- Back cover.
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