Title: The Kitchen When It Sizzles
Author: Chrissie Peria
Date of Publication: August 16, 2014
Genre: sexy contemporary romance
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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:
“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.
About Chrissie Peria
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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