Cake and Eat It - Couverture souple

McFall, Kathleen; Hays, Clark

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798988297451

Editeur : Pumpjack Press, 2025

Synopsis

Has Anzi found a new recipe for love?

Anzi loves to bake. She’s the pastry chef at the quirky Rose and Thorn restaurant. What she loves most about baking is the precision and predictability. If you have the right ingredients and follow the recipe exactly, success is certain. There’s zero risk.

It’s the same strategy she uses with Austin, her good-natured chef boyfriend and rising star in the Portland fine-dining scene. They’re in a stable relationship, with no surprises, just the way Anzi likes it.
In her downtime, she hosts a pretend baking show on a community access channel. Campy, funny and no-budget—with bedazzled cardboard appliances and a volunteer crew—Anzi is a natural in front of the camera. She uses the show to share her love of baking.

Life is good.

Until Roland—her almost-ex from culinary school days and the perpetrator of “the cake incident”—reappears in her life. He offers Anzi the chance to shoot a pilot for a real national cable TV baking show in New York. Turns out Roland’s boss at EatTV, a new channel devoted to food, saw Anzi’s wacky late-night show. It’s an incredible, life-changing opportunity, but there are two problems.

First, Anzi is still furious with Roland for his betrayal three years ago, and second, she is terrified of flying.

Roland offers to drive her across the country, and with Austin’s blessing, Anzi and Roland set out on a road trip, but she doesn’t plan to enjoy a minute of it. How could she? Stuck in a car with the man who broke her heart and almost ruined her career. Who cares if he’s even sexier and more handsome than he was three years ago?

That lasts until Wyoming.

But falling for Roland again would be a mistake, especially with safe Austin waiting at home—it’s a recipe for disaster, right?

Cake and Eat It, the third book in the Restaurantland Romance series, is an enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, found-family story crackling with offbeat humor and featuring an eccentric cast of cooks, servers and customers, set in Portland, Oregon, in the fabulous pre-internet 1990s.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kathleen McFall is an American author and artist. Previously, she was a geologist, journalist and academic communications officer. She was born, raised and educated in Washington D.C., after which she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her writing and life partner, Clark Hays. Her books have received several distinguished awards, and she is the recipient of a fiction fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts.

Clark Hays is the coauthor of many books, some award-winning, in multiple genres including Western Gothic, alt-history, science fiction and romance. He is also a poet, a communications professional by day and a whiskey enthusiast by night. Clark was born in Texas, lived in California, Alaska, Scotland and - for his formative years - on a cattle ranch in Montana. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with his life and writing partner, Kathleen McFall. When not writing (or editing, or marketing, or more editing) - a rare occurrence - he's probably reading, playing backgammon, hiking or otherwise enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pumpjack Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798988297451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg