The Chef Who Broke Me

Junie Okafor has thirty seconds to plate the dessert that will decide whether she survives her first week at Cormorant, and Bastien Roux is standing over her shoulder saying nothing. He's forty-eight, he has two stars, and he has run every pastry chef in Brooklyn out of his kitchen except her. He also knows she's been writing the anonymous blog that's been stealing his press. He hired her anyway. Junie should walk. She stays because the kitchen is the first place she's ever been excellent, and because Bastien Roux — silent, exacting, patient when it counts — isn't the man the industry has warned her about. He's worse and better than that. He's the man who eats burned croissants to save her from herself. The Chef Who Broke Me is a standalone grumpy boss age gap romance set in a two-star Brooklyn kitchen, with burnt edges, high heat, and a happily ever after that ends in Marseille.