num_pages: 245
description: A beautiful woman and an exceptionally talented chef, Lara Bartoletti has restaurants across Europe, and 8 best selling cookery books to her name. Lara is an extremely successful woman, but this masks an unhappy personal life. Her recent marriage breakdown, like all her successes and disappointments, is splashed across the tabloids. Lara throws herself into her work, focusing on her latest cookery book, a return to her roots in Italy.  Nikki Walker has spent the last 6 years working as a highly paid escort, her androgynous good looks and talents enabling her to establish a thriving private business. She services rich and famous women who want their sexual lives to remain private, and are happy to have their needs met by a woman acting as a man. In Nikki, or Nik her alternate ego, they have complete satisfaction and ultimate discretion.  But Nikki is tired of this life, escorting and personal relationships are incompatible and she is tired of meaningless encounters. Now close to financial stability and having completed her training she wishes to focus on her photography and graphic design skills. The opportunity to work with the company designing Lara Bartoletti’s cookbook is a dream come true, she has desired Lara for as long as she can remember. Despite her low level role, she hopes for the chance to prove herself. When Lara then unknowingly employs her as an escort, despite everything warning her against it, Nikki throws caution to the wind and accepts.  When Lara and Nikki’s worlds collide neither is prepared for the impact, Can Lara open her heart to an alternate lifestyle and accept Nikki for who she really is? Can they face the wrath of the press?  Sometimes you don’t know what you need until you find it.  Note that this book contains scenes of a sexual nature.   
language: English
title: The Chef and the Gigolo: Sometimes you don’t know what you need until you find it.
publisher: Roz James