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The Romance Recipe

An LGBTQ+ RomCom

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1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available
A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
"The feelings in this one are dialed up so high you almost can't look at them directly: It would be like staring into the sun... Like Rosie Danan or Kate Clayborn, Barrett has a way of making palpable the full journey of a relationship" –New York Times
"Simply put, The Romance Recipe is a treat." –USA TODAY

Amy Chambers: restaurant owner, micromanager, control freak.
Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie's skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane...
Sophie Brunet: grump in the kitchen/sunshine in the streets, took thirty years to figure out she was queer.
Sophie just wants to cook. She doesn't want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn't want to deal with Amy's take-charge personality and she doesn't want to think about what her attraction to her boss might mean...
Then, an opportunity: a new foodie TV show might provide the exposure they need. An uneasy truce is fine for starters, but making their dreams come true means making some personal and painful sacrifices and soon, there's more than just the restaurant at stake.
Carina Adores is home to romantic love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters.
Book 1: Hot Copy
Book 2: The Romance Recipe

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 18, 2022
      Barrett (Hot Copy) again tackles the complexities of workplace romance in her fun if shaky sophomore rom-com. Restaurateur Amy offered her head chef job to Sophie, a finalist from reality cooking show Pop-Up Kitchen, based exclusively on the crush she’d developed on Sophie over the course of the show. At first, Sophie drew crowds, but her shine has faded. Sophie knows she only got the job because of her celebrity, and though she would cancel all her social media accounts if she could, she puts extra time into curating the ideal feed, hoping to keep her boss—and secret crush—happy. Readers are told that each woman has feelings for the other from the start, but it’s difficult to see this in their early, largely contentious interactions. When Sophie’s ex-fiancé announces a new reality show that would mean free advertising for the restaurant, Amy and Sophie go head-to-head over whether to enter. In the process, both reveal more about themselves than either expected to, and their chemistry finally comes through. Understanding why these women are so drawn to each other may take some time, but their grounded personal and professional struggles are easy to invest in. The result is a down-to-earth queer romance. Agent: Kiana Nguyen, Donald Maass Literary.

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