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Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sally Solari quits her job as an attorney to help her recently widowed father run his restaurant. When her aunt is found murdered and her sous chef is the prime suspect, Sally is determined to clear his name and find the real murderer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When her friend Evelyn's cheating boyfriend, a food critic who has been negatively reviewing several local restaurants, including hers, is found dead, Lulu Taylor works to catch the real killer and exonerate her loved ones.
Author
Series
Skinny Bitch novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to Skinny Bitch in Love follows the vegan chef's efforts to run her restaurant while planning her wedding, an effort that is challenged by her future mother-in-law's fancy tastes, her fiancé's distant behavior and her best friend's engagement to a nightmarish reality star.
44) Death al fresco
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's Indian summer in Santa Cruz and restaurateur Sally Solari decides an open-air painting class is the perfect way for her to learn more about Paul Gaugin, the inspiration for her family's newest restaurant. But the beauty of the Monterey Bay coastline is shattered when Sally's dog Buster sniffs out a corpse tangled up in kelp.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Susan Napier's family once lived on the success of the high-end restaurants founded by her late grandfather. But bad luck and worse management has brought the business to the edge of financial ruin. Now it's up to Susan to save the last remaining restaurant: Elliot's, the flagship in Edinburgh. But what awaits Susan in the charming city of Auld Reekie is more than she bargained for. Chris Baker, her grandfather's former protégé - and her ex-boyfriend...
Author
Series
Montgomery brothers volume 9
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Two people who have spent most of their lives being rivals...Learn a little something about following their hearts...Carter Montgomery broke the family mold when he went to culinary school. Now a successful restauranteur, he's at a crossroads: should he continue on his successful path or look for a new challenge? What he needs is time alone to think things through. But his matchmaking family has other ideas...Emery Monaghan's no-good fiancé has...
50) Bedeviled eggs
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Language
English
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"The ladies at the Cackleberry Club cafe are busy preparing for Halloween...but someone's jumped the gun on the tricks. A murderer is running loose in the town of Kindred and Suzanne's on the beat to sniff out one bad egg..." --from cover.
51) True-blue cowboy
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain riders novels volume 4
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Everly Brooks is finally living her dream. Renting a farm in Topaz Falls, Colorado, is the perfect antidote to her high-stress life back in San Francisco. It's the ideal place to raise chickens, grow veggies, and run her farm-to-table restaurant. There's just one problem: her new landlord. Mateo Torres is a handsome-as-hell bronc rider who oozes charm, melts hearts-and plans to kick Everly off the farm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As if the holidays weren't stressful enough, Parker Kincade has a restaurant to open. The fact that his Groomzilla brother wants the place for his perfect Christmas wedding doesn't help. Then there's the stunning woman who appoints herself his new chef before he's ready to hire one. But one look at Gabriella Montani has Parker reassessing needs vs. wants. And that's before he tastes what she has to offer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sally Solari is busy juggling work at her family's Italian restaurant, Solari's, and helping Javier plan the autumn menu for the restaurant she's just inherited, Gauguin. Complicating this already hectic schedule, Sally joins her ex-boyfriend Eric's chorus, which is performing a newly discovered version of her favorite composition: the Mozart Requiem. But then, at the first rehearsal, a tenor falls to his death on the church courtyard--and his soprano...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Caroline Sweeney has always done the right thing--the responsible, dependable thing--unlike her mother who abandoned her family. But when her best friend challenges her to accept an exciting job adventure in Barcelona, Spain, Caroline says "yes" to destiny. Then, without warning, ownership of the run-down cafe where she's been waitressing falls right into Caroline's lap. While she's trying to determine the cafe's future, handsome Deputy Sherriff J.D....
56) Had to be you
Author
Series
Bad boys of Red Hook volume 3
Publisher
Signet Eclipse, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Slater knew tragedy from a young age, but with the help of his family, he turned his life around. Now, he's returned to town to help to run the family restaurant. The job has an extra benefit named Rocki. Flirty, sweet, and outgoing, Rocki is unable to resist his charms, but refuses to open her heart to him. Then a family crisis shatters her and exposes a secret from her past. Slater sets out to prove that their relationship could give them something...
57) If you leave
Author
Series
Beautifully broken volume 2
Publisher
Forever/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-Army Ranger Gabriel Vincent is a hero. Or he used to be. Home from Afghanistan, Gabe can't stop thinking about that one horrible night on the battlefield, a night that changed his life forever. He know's he's messed up, but with the help of a little beer and a lot more women, he's keeping it together. Until he meets Madison Hill. Madison is happily single--or so she thinks. After the tragic death of her parents, she took on the responsibility...
Author
Series
If Shakespeare was an auntie trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Bobbi Kaur is determined to plan a celebration to remember for her best friend's wedding. But she has two problems that are getting in her way. The egotistical, and irritatingly sexy, chef Benjamin "Bunty" Padda is supposed to help her with the menu since he's the groom's best friend, and someone is trying to sabotage the wedding. With aspirations of taking over her family's event planning business, Bobbi knows that one misstep in managing the Kareena...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jobless and forced home to Wisconsin, journalist Sabrina Monroe can tolerate reunions with frenemies and kisses from old boyfriends but not the literal ghosts that greet her in this heartwarming tale of the power of love and connection from acclaimed author Amy E. Reichert. For Sabrina Monroe, moving back home to the Wisconsin Dells-the self-described Water Park Capital of the World-means returning to the Monroe family curse: the women in her family...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Nicole Palmieri is married to her job. As a user experience designer at Virtuality, an artificial intelligence company in Los Angeles, Nicole is at her desk from sunrise to sunset. She doesn't have time for a social life (or a love life), but that's perfectly fine with her. Until her best friend, Parisa Shahin, announces her engagement and asks Nicole to be her maid of honor. That's when Nicole decides to meticulously schedule out the next six months...
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