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One of Amazon's Best Romances of December A December LibraryReads Pick Sometimes two cooks in the kitchen are better than one in this swoony romantic comedy from the author of I’m So (Not) Over You. Xavier Reynolds is doing less than stellar. He just got dumped, was passed over for a prestigious fellowship, and to top it all off he's right back home in Harper's Cove, Maine (population: 9,000). The last thing he wants to do is to work as a prep chef in the kitchen of the hip new restaurant in town, The Wharf. Especially since the hot, single-father chef who owns it can’t delegate to save his life.
Logan O’Hare doesn’t understand Xavier or why every word out of his mouth is dipped in sarcasm. Unfortunately, he has no choice but to hire him—he needs more help in the kitchen and his tween daughter, Anne, can only mince so many onions. It might be a recipe for disaster, but Logan doesn’t have many options besides Xavier.
Stuck between a stove and a hot place, Logan and Xavier discover an unexpected connection. But when the heat between them threatens to top the Scoville scale, they’ll have to decide if they can make their relationship work or if life has seasoned them too differently.
One of Amazon's Best Romances of December A December LibraryReads Pick Sometimes two cooks in the kitchen are better than one in this swoony romantic comedy from the author of I’m So (Not) Over You. Xavier Reynolds is doing less than stellar. He just got dumped, was passed over for a prestigious fellowship, and to top it all off he's right back home in Harper's Cove, Maine (population: 9,000). The last thing he wants to do is to work as a prep chef in the kitchen of the hip new restaurant in town, The Wharf. Especially since the hot, single-father chef who owns it can’t delegate to save his life.
Logan O’Hare doesn’t understand Xavier or why every word out of his mouth is dipped in sarcasm. Unfortunately, he has no choice but to hire him—he needs more help in the kitchen and his tween daughter, Anne, can only mince so many onions. It might be a recipe for disaster, but Logan doesn’t have many options besides Xavier.
Stuck between a stove and a hot place, Logan and Xavier discover an unexpected connection. But when the heat between them threatens to top the Scoville scale, they’ll have to decide if they can make their relationship work or if life has seasoned them too differently.
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Excerpts-
From the cover
Chapter One
You up?
In most circles, that text would read like a very ineloquently crafted booty call, one that absolutely should not warrant a response. Or, as Miranda Priestly-a fictional god among men-would call it, Boring, dull, and derivative.
If a boy texts you at 4:00 a.m., don't answer it, I would always tell my girlfriends in college. If he can't text you in the daytime, why should you answer him when the lights go out?
I have firsthand accounts that my guidance has helped many girls in my resident hall-Clark Street pride, baby-avoid some embarrassing situations. I would even give the same advice to the (few) straight male friends I had.
Don't you dare go texting a girl at 4:00 a.m. and ask her to come over. If you care about her, you'll message her when the sun is high. Ask her out. Wine her. Dine her. And THEN, and only if she consents, you can finger blast her in the back of a movie theater. #Romance.
Because remember: When we let boys succeed by performing the bare minimum, we'll never see them blossom into the men we know they can become. No, it's not our responsibility to help boys achieve their full potential, but if we don't do it, who will? It's a hard job, but someone has to do it.
Someone, obviously, in this situation, being me, a gay, and my fellow female partners in crime.
But, going back to the topic at hand, this isn't a booty call text I'm sending, for three key and very important reasons.
ONE: The message was sent to my friend Mya, and I do not hook up with friends. Point-blank. I don't have many rules I've set for myself that I've followed-which is probably a mark of my flightiness or inability to stay focused on any goal that doesn't have strict consequences if I fail, which is a topic for my therapist, when I get a therapist again-but that is a hard-and-fast one.
FBI-friends, bosses, idols-the trifecta of people you should never EVER have sex with. Someone always gets hurt and the night ends with some sad ballad written by an airy breathy white girl who sings in cursive on repeat, causing the neighbors to bang on your door or issue a noise complaint and lead you to being homeless on the street, begging for change, realizing a boy completely and utterly destroyed your life.
Dramatic? Maybe. Factual? Absolutely.
TWO: This can't be a booty call because, even if Mya is up, there's no potential for her to be free to actually, you know, do the big nasty. She's a teacher and they-especially those who teach second grade-never sleep because they're always working. So, the whole suave acting-like-she-might-not-be-up thing is a moot point. Mya is as close to a vampire as one could personify, which we all thought our teachers were when we were in second grade. Vampires who lived at school and went into their coffins during summer vacation.
TWO POINT FIVE: It's only 4:00 a.m. That's not that early. Many people in the United States get up at six to start their day. In fact, roughly 23 percent of Americans get up between six and six thirty, and if you include those up between five and six, that adds another 32 percent, for a total of 55 percent of Americans-more than half are up to make the world their bitch.
And THREE: Probably the most important bullet of all these: I am a raging homosexual. Like, a big ol' "knew the lyrics to 'Rain on Me' twenty minutes after it came out, makes a point to analyze each queen on RuPaul's Drag Race each season to pick the top contender" homosexual.
Ergo, in conclusion, as you can see, Your Honor (etc., etc.), there's no possible way, given the facts presented, this could be a booty call. In truth, though? I...
About the Author-
Kosoko Jackson is a digital-media specialist, who lives in the New York Metro Area and spends too much time listening to Halsey and Taylor Swift.
Reviews-
September 5, 2022 This charming romance from Jackson (I’m So (Not) Over You) takes readers to the quaint town of Harper’s Cove, Maine, to which Black, gay business school grad Xavier Reynolds returns after losing both his job his boyfriend. Xavier initially mistakes chef Logan O’Hare, a white, bisexual single father, for a burglar breaking into his parents’ house, leading to a comical but slightly over-the-top meet-ugly. The cutesy narration of this opening dials back a bit as the plot progresses, allowing the story room to breathe. When Xavier takes a sous chef job in Logan’s restaurant, the very different men soon learn to work together—and indulge in some intense “erotic flirting.” They also reveal their vulnerabilities, which may be why Logan trusts Xavier to run the restaurant alone one night—unaware that a make-or-break food critic is in the house. Complications further arise from their clashing desires: while Logan is looking for a relationship, Xavier plans to leave ASAP. And when Xavier develops a secret plan to help Logan’s business, he jeopardizes their budding romance by violating Logan’s trust. Jackson seasons his rom-com with quippy dialogue and oodles of pop culture references, if not quite enough food porn. Even so, readers will eat this up. Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.
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With his conversational delivery, narrator Joshua David Scarlett keeps listeners attuned to Xavier's perspective in this romance set in a small town in Maine. After he loses his job and his boyfriend dumps him, 20-something Xavier finds himself back at his parents' house, and he's not happy about it. Xavier has big dreams for his future, and Harper's Cove has only ever felt stifling. An inauspicious encounter with local chef and single dad Logan makes a bad first impression but eventually leads to their working together, and more. Scarlett leans into the humor when Xavier and Logan trade quippy banter, and as they grow closer, listeners will hear Xavier's self-protective walls gradually begin to come down. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
