Author: Drea Stein
Series: The Queensbay Contemporary Romance series
Pages: 226
Date Published: December 15th, 2013
Publisher: Barn Hill Media
Format: Kindle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Source: Goddess Fish Blog Tours
Synopsis:
Sean and Darby love food - but is their relationship a recipe for disaster - Or a chance to make kitchen magic?
Sean Callahan was a hot shot big city chef whose high handed ways got him into trouble one too many times. Now he's in a small town hoping for another shot at the big leagues. Darby Reese is a big city lawyer who can bake like an angel. Unfortunately, a life lived according to the law has left her burned out. So when the chance comes to run her family's deli in the small town of Queensbay, Darby's happy to take it. But when Sean, the former chef du jour walks into her kitchen, she's definitely not prepared for sparks to fly. Will the two of them be able to find the recipe for happily ever after?
~Try an Excerpt!~
“I’m Sean Callahan.” He stuck out his hand.
She looked at it, shrugged and said. “We met already,
remember?”
He did his best to keep smiling, but her hostility was
wearing him down. “Yeah, about that.”
“I assume your mushrooms worked out for you?” Her tone was
frostily polite as she turned and began to walk.
Surprised, he had to move quickly to keep up with her. “You
know, I have plenty more,” he said, “if you need some. I didn’t mean to send
you back to the store.” Friendly. If you were friendly, then someone else was
supposed to be friendly back, right? Apparently, this one wasn’t going to give
him an inch.
She looked at him, and he noticed that she had a small
smattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose and cheeks. “I managed to
improvise.” Her tone was clipped, and it didn’t take a genius to deduce that
she was pissed at him.
He ran a hand through his hair. Usually he didn’t have to
work this hard to get a girl to like him. Women seemed to find him charming, at
least at first. Until they got pissed off when he decided it was time to move
on. Unfortunately, Darby seemed to have moved straight on to the pissed stage,
without even giving him a chance. Okay, so he’d not been on his best behavior
that morning, at least until he’d gotten a good look at her.
He turned on his high-wattage smile, the one that always
worked, and tried his best bad-boy-turned-sorry look. “Sorry, sugar, it was a
bit of a crazy morning. I hadn’t had my coffee yet. You know how that goes,
right?”
~Meet Drea!~
Drea Stein is
the author of the Queensbay contemporary romance series. She lives in rural New
Jersey – yup, there really is such a thing – with her family and writes in an
old barn. Visit her at www.dreastein.com or
https://www.facebook.com/DreaSteinAuthor
Thanks so much for hosting the book - Dinner for Two is about two chefs who share a love of food - and a love of chocolate. Darby makes a mean chocolate chip cookie that brings the whole town to its knees - what's your favorite kind of cookie?
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt! And to answer Drea's question, I don't have a favorite cookie as long as it has chocolate, I'm happy. :-)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the excerpt. Thanks :)
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