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Blurb
Sean and Darby love food - but is their relationship a recipe for
disaster - Or a chance to make kitchen magic?
Find out in Dinner for Two, Book 1 in The Queensbay contemporary
romance series
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?
Book one in the Queensbay Series, a contemporary romance series.
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?”
Author bio and links
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 having me - so glad the book is free and everyone can get a chance to read Darby and Sean's story - it's the first in the Queensbay series.
ReplyDelete~Drea Stein