While working to get the ch́teau's restoration completed in time for a Christmas wedding, executive chef Viola Williamson tries to convince Bainbridge House's caretaker Dom Shaw that her feelings for him are real.

Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir -- a classic American story -- invites readers to Erin's corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind...

Haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist, Val Deniston has traded in the chaos of New York City for a quieter life near the Chesapeake Bay. Living with her curmudgeonly grandfather in the tourist town of Bayport is hardly glamorous, but she enjoys working at the Cool Down Cafe at the local fitness club, and she finally has time to work on her long-planned cookbook. But when one of the club's patrons is found dead,...

Its a cold January in the Chesapeake Bay area, but Cool Down Café manager Val Deniston has plenty to sweat overlike catering a book club event, testing recipes for her Granddads cookbook, and catching the author of a deadly tale of murder. . .The last thing Val needs in her life is an unsolved murder, especially when the victim, an actor famed for impersonating Edgar Allan Poe, happens to be dressed exactly like her Granddad. To keep an eye on Granddad,...

"Six months after her husband Dylan's death, Tessa Esposito is prepping for the grand opening of her new Italian restaurant, Anything's Pastable. Meanwhile her cousin Gabby is trying to increase traffic at her new bookstore. So when New York Times bestselling author, Preston Rigotta, agrees to a book signing, Tessa offers to lend a hand, catering a variety of sweet Italian treats for the occasion. But the signing soon takes a bitter turn when Preston's...

Denver chef Rachel Bishop won a James Beard Award and heads up her own fine-dining restaurant-- until she is the target of a smear campaign. Alex Kanin was highlighting the pitfalls of online criticism-- and destroyed the career of a perfect stranger. Plagued by guilt, he agrees to help rebuild Rachel's tarnished image by offering his connections and his home to host an exclusive pop-up dinner party targeted to the Saturday Night Supper Club. As they...

"When tea shop owner and local coven member Mahogany Medford asks her to look into her mother's untimely death, caterer and witchcraft trainee Mia stirs the pot as she, with Gran's protective stone and a circle of trusted confidants, seeks to find the truth"--

One impetuous, slightly drunken kiss has turned up the heat on chef Amar Virani's feelings for Divya Shah. He's been in love with the sexy pastry chef--his sister's best friend!--since they were teenagers, but a painful tragedy in his past keeps Amar from revealing his true emotions. As they work side by side in Divya's tiny food truck, she realizes there's more than just business simmering between them. For the first time, she's tempted to step outside...

The Civil War has ended, but in Katie's Georgia home, conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her unstable husband, she flees north, finding sanctuary as the cook in a north woods lumber camp. Can she keep her past a secret from a man she is slowly growing to love?