Title: The Kitchen When It Sizzles
Author: Chrissie Peria
Date of Publication: August 16, 2014
Genre: Sexy Contemporary Romance
Blurb:
Olivia Nadal is an almost perfect girl with an almost perfect life. She has stunning good looks, an exciting job that pays well, men lining up to date her, and a homey little condo she calls her own. The only thing keeping her from perfection is her utter inability to cook.
Enter Nate Olivarez, a hotshot chef who's filling in for Olivia's cooking instructor. Sparks fly when they meet, but a fling with the visiting hottie is the last thing Olivia needs. But as things keep heating up in the kitchen, she can't help but wonder. Can things work out between her and Nate? Or is the sizzle all set to fizzle?
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EXCERPT:
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About the Author:
“You are too pretty to be the water
delivery guy,” announced a deep, decidedly masculine voice. Olivia’s eyes flew
open to see a shirtless hunk, clad only in low-slung, unbuttoned jeans that
barely straddled his hips. Little beads of water glistened over the parts of
his lean, well-toned, tattooed torso (appropriately enough, the droplets were
on Japanese-inspired waves) that escaped being toweled off. His dark hair was
cropped short and his jaw was lined with day-old stubble, screaming
I-don’t-give-a-damn-about-how-I-look.
Olivia did a double take. She was expecting
Miss Julia, celebrity TV chef, cooking instructor, and her childhood cooking
idol. She was really looking forward to meeting the kind-looking, older woman
who was as talented in whipping up delicious dishes as she was in gliding about
the kitchen in flowing, floral things. Instead, she got this—this—this sizzling
specimen of manhood who looked like a rockstar caught in the middle of a
sold-out concert.
“You aren’t the water delivery guy, are
you?” he clarified, one eyebrow quirking up, highlighting the faint white scar
underneath it. He gave her a once over, starting from the top of her head to
the tips of her toes—lingering a little bit too long over her chest area.
Olivia cursed herself for dressing like a slob who just got out of bed, never
mind that the distressed t-shirt cost about the same as a full course dinner in
a swanky restaurant.
Apparently, he liked what he saw because
his mouth turned up in a smile, complete with crinkly-cornered eyes that lit up
his whole face. “Yep. Definitely too pretty to do water deliveries. Perhaps you
should come in so we can figure this out?” He held the door open for her, and
it took every ounce of her self-control to not be drawn to the spider’s web.
“I think I got the wrong address,” she
muttered, rattled by his forwardness on a Saturday morning when she hadn’t had
her coffee yet. She took a step back, but he grabbed her wrist to stop her from
leaving.
“Hold on, I was just messing with you.
You’re here for the basic cooking course, right? Olivia? My aunt’s assistant
told me about you.” He let go of her wrist to open the door wider. “Sorry, I
was expecting the water delivery guy. He’s the impatient sort, so I rushed out
from the shower to make sure I could catch him. I didn’t bother to look
respectable, because I wasn’t expecting you until much later.”
“I’m sorry, but I’m not sure I understand—”
“Name’s Nathan Olivarez. I’ll be your
cooking instructor.”
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About the Author:
When not obsessing over fictional people doing fictional things, Chrissie obsesses about food: the eating, the cooking, and the procuring of it.
An advertising copywriter in her past life, she now spends most of her time writing, taking photos, cooking, and babysitting a tiny human and a curly-haired dog. She still plays with dolls and she thinks that bacon is the answer. Her first book, All's Fair in Blog and War, is a finalist in the 2014 Filipino Readers' Choice Awards.
Blog - http://www.chrissieperia.com
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/peria.chrissie
Twitter - http://twitter.com/chrissieperia
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/chrissieperia
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