Review: Culinary art & romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2013
The combination of culinary art and romance creates Bachelor's Special by Christine Warner. A tantalizing prologue draws the reader into this entertaining romance with characters that are likeable, fun and real. This is a cute and sexy read that kept me engaged from beginning to end.Spunky and focused Jill Adgate dreams of being a chef. She has done everything right and her dream is becoming more of a reality with each passing day, until the she nervously smashes a birthday cake into a gorgeous male client, sobs, and shares a passionate kiss with the aforementioned client, Chet Castle. Needless to say, she is fired and her reputation is destroyed. Jill's future, both personally and professionally, is in limbo.Chet Castle is good-looking, wealthy and honest. As a successful businessman, he goes out of his way to help others both financially and personally. His non-existent love-life is a thorn in his families' side. They desperately want him to fall in love and settle down. Due to a prior relationship, Chet has major trust issues and has sworn himself to a life of good times without any commitment.Jill and Chet meet again on a blind date a year after their wanton kiss. With knowing only her name, Chet has Jill investigated prior to the date and believes she is after his money. Jill just hopes he doesn't recognize her, since she was covered in head to toe chef gear at the time of the cake smashing. Luckily, they get to know each other and Chet ends up offering Jill a job as his personal chef and caterer. Chet's initial goal is to get Jill into the sack, and then help her get her catering business off the ground. However, living together and spending time with each other leads to a steamy rendezvous in the pool. From that point on, they are hooked.Knowing that mixing business and pleasure is not a good idea, they are constantly fighting their true feelings and attempting to remain in the friend zone, which is not working. Once they both let their guards down and communicate with each other, the future is theirs for the taking.