Since I’m still promoting the preorders for my upcoming 6th Dickens Holiday Romance, A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS, i figured another little tidbit about food was a good idea today.
Portia Avon is no cook. Not even close. She has one go-to item she can cook, though, and makes it for Tony when she discovers he hasn’t eaten anything in almost 14 hours. She makes him a simple ham and cheese grilled sandwich, and he thinks it’s the best thing he’s eaten in a while.
ANother little tidbit in the book that concerns eating is all the sauces Tony makes taste even better with different spices and ways of cooking them.
Food and cooking play heavy in this book and serve to show Tony the reasons why he should rejoin the “land of the living and walking around,” again.
You’ll understand that quote once you read the book. Oh, and looks: it’s up for preorder right now, here:
This is just a reminder that MIX AND MATCH and LOVE MATCH, which are both sitting at 99 cents right now, will revert back to their $2.99 prices on Saturday, 9.7.24.
So, if you’ve been on the fence about reading them, now is the perfect time to download them. The price won’t change again until 2025, when book 3 is released.
My book VINDICATION is spotlighted here today on NN LIGHT: VINDICATION
And you can check it out here on KINDLE VELLA VINDICATION.
Someone is murdering teenage girls in Washington, DC. The FBI’s special division, the SPCD – the Sexual Predators of Children – has been working the case for the past 6 months. When a Senator’s daughter goes missing, the team, led by Tucker Petrie, has to call on retired profiler – and his past partner – Kella O’Brian. Reluctantly, she rejoins the team and they search for a link to the girls who have been abducted, then killed.
So after the wonderful cover reveal weekend for A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS, I figured it would be a good idea to post a little of the story to whet your preorder appetite, lol!
In the story, Tony is spicing up Dorrit’s recipes a bit and he calls up his old spicy fall pumpkin soup recipe. Here’s the scene where he introduces it…
“You got more of that pumpkin soup left?” Amy asked, breezing into the kitchen, a stacked tray of empty dishes in her arms.
“Just stirring the next batch,” he told her.
“I need two bowls, and I’m pretty sure RayLynn will be in with an order too, ‘cuz I heard one of the customers asking her about it.”
He nodded while pulling down bowls from the shelf.
“I don’t know what you put in it,” Amy said, sliding the dishes into the sink, “but I’ve never had so many orders for hot soup in this diner before today; that’s a fact.”
Silently, he smiled, then told her, “Old family recipe.” Which was a half-truth. He’d taken his Nonna’s recipe, which was delicious on its own, then played with the spices until he found a mixture that was sweet, tangy and savory all at the same time. He’d served it at Gusto for only one Fall season, right before the world changed. The notion to fire it up again, he hated to admit, had been sparked by Portia’s cookbook idea.
The picture is a pretty good portrayal of what the soup looks like if you make it.
If you saw my post on Friday, 8.30, you know that Judy Kentrus and I kicked off the 2024 season of A DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series on the Facebook page with a day of fun, games, recipes, and our cover reveals.
Just in case you missed that fabulous day, here’s the cover to my 2024 addition to the series, A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS
This beauty joins the other 5 books I’ve written in the series, all centering around DORRIT’S DINER, its owner AMY DORRIT CHARLES, and her adopted children Abra, Sasha, and Michael.
YOu can find all the DICKENS HOLIDAY ROMANCE series books here: DHR
A CHEF’S KISS CHRISTMAS releases on 11/11/24 and will be just #99cents for the first week. After that, the price goes to its normal $2.99 per kindle copy. It will also be available in print for $16.99
Happy reading, kids, and welcomes to Dickens, where love is always in season.
Do you love a matchmaker romance book? I do. Simply lovelovelove!!! And August 31st has been designated as MATCHMAKER DAY!
To celebrate this wonderful day devoted to finding love, I’ve got a sale going on for my HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER series – both books MIX & MATCH and LOVE MATCHare ON SALE for just #99cents in Kindle copy! You can’t beat that price! 2 books for less than $2.00!
Divorced and lonely, nurse Jasmine Green retains the services of Heaven, NH’s very own successful matchmaker, Olivia Joyner. The bar scene and dating apps give Jasmine hives and Liv’s reputation is stellar. If anyone can help guide her through the quagmire that dating has become, Olivia can.
Architect Donovan Boyd is ready to settle down. He wants the kind of marriage his parents have; long lasting, filled with love, children, and joy. But even after a year of living and working in Heaven, he’s still considered an outsider by many. Finding the type of woman he’s looking for is hard in the tight-knit community. Retaining Olivia Joyner to help him find his forever love is one of the smartest things he’s done, especially after she sets him up with Jasmine Green.
But the red-haired, green-eyed beauty wants a different kind of marriage from the one Donovan considers ideal.
Running away from a public scandal may be cowardly, but to Layla Warton, it’s her best option.
After her politically connected fiancé is indicted for a laundry list of crimes, Layla wants to put the public ridicule and shame of her guilty-by-association status behind her. Not easy to do when all her supposed friends and supporters lose her number and the taint of scandal-adjacent destroys the successful design business and life she’s built for herself.
Happy childhood memories and the blessing of a local friend push her toward the tiny New England town of Heaven where she spent summers with her loving grandparents. Hiding out in the town until the scandal dies down is the perfect plan.
With the paparazzi hot on her tail, an ancient family home she needs to get livable, and a contractor too hot for her sanity, Layla worries she’ll never be able to get her old life back.
But would that really be such a bad thing?
….and look for book 3, PERFECT MATCH, coming in 2025
Peggy Jaeger, Author 