She cooks to forget. He grows to remember. Elizabeth Chen runs the kitchen at Braise, one of the most demanding restaurants in Montréal’s Mile End. Every dish is an act of control. Every service, a suit of armor. Since she left her mother’s kitchen, she lets no one near her stove — or her heart. Gabriel Masson gave up everything to take over his family farm. He supplies Braise with produce no one else can find — including a tomato he’s never named. He speaks little. He watches everything. And what he sees in Elizabeth, no one else does. When their worlds collide between earth and fire, between the market and the kitchen, the tension rises faster than a reduction.
But Elizabeth doesn’t mix work and feelings. And Gabriel never forces anything — he waits for the fruit to ripen. Between the embers of the restaurant and the fields at dawn, something burns. Slowly. Surely. TASTE: Smoke is Book 1 of a five-book contemporary culinary romance series set in Montréal’s food world. Found family. Dual POV. Steamy scenes. Love served burning hot.
For readers of Vi Keeland, Jasmine Guillory, and anyone who believes the best love stories are seasoned with real heat.
