Recipe for disaster: [a novel]
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To an outside observer, Anneke Stroudt is a mess, her shirts are stained, her fingernails stubby, her language colorful. But, despite her flaws, Anneke's life is close to perfect. She has a beautiful historic house to restore and a loving fiance who cooks like a dream, until Anneke's charmed existence falls apart when she loses both her job and her future husband in one terrible day. In need of a new start, she packs up her disgruntled schnauzer and moves into her half-finished home, where she throws her pent-up frustration-and what little savings she has-into finishing the renovation. But at the first step into the house's overhaul, Anneke is sidetracked when she discovers a mysterious leather-bound book, long hidden away, filled with tempting recipes and steamy secrets from Emma Ditmore-Smythe, the cook for the house's original owners. Slowly, with the help of some delicious food and Emma's life lessons, Anneke begins to realize that, just like a flawless recipe, she's been waiting for the right ingredients to cook up a perfect life all along. With the perfect blend of humor and heart, Ballis's writing is powerfully honest and genuinely hilarious--Provided by publisher.
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subject_facet | Cooks -- Fiction Humorous stories Romance fiction Self-realization -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Recipe for disaster : | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Recipe for Disaster Recipe for disaster : [a novel] / Stacey Ballis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Recipe for disaster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | [a novel] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Cooks Fiction Humor (Fiction) Literature Romance Self-realization |