She came home to sell the boat. The boat had other ideas. So did the mechanic.
Burned-out chef Mai Trần has a plan: settle her father’s failing shrimp operation, sell the family boat, and get back to the city that ate thirteen years of her life. Simple. Except Émile Boudreaux has kept that boat running for free, for years, and he doesn’t fix things so they can be sold.
When the dock price collapses and payroll can’t be met, Mai does the only thing she knows. She cooks. Her grandmother’s lemongrass and garlic butter meet a Louisiana shrimp boil, and suddenly the whole town is at her table. Including the man she can’t stop arguing with.
A sweet, closed-door small-town romance with a guaranteed happy ending, a meddling grandmother, and the best shrimp boil on the bayou.
Book 1 of the Bayou Saint-Cyr series.
