The Chef's Table: Small Town Second Chance Romance
By Sage Hayes
[US Sale] At fifty-one, celebrity chef Diane Sterling is done with the spotlight. After a humiliating divorce and a kitchen scandal destroyed her New York empire, she's hiding on the Oregon coast, cooking simple food in a failing resort—and that's exactly how she wants it. No cameras. No charm. No expectations.
But Kenzie Miller, the resort's thirty-two-year-old general manager, has other plans. She needs Diane to save the property with an intimate Chef's Table experience—and she won't ta...
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[US Sale] At fifty-one, celebrity chef Diane Sterling is done with the spotlight. After a humiliating divorce and a kitchen scandal destroyed her New York empire, she's hiding on the Oregon coast, cooking simple food in a failing resort—and that's exactly how she wants it. No cameras. No charm. No expectations.
But Kenzie Miller, the resort's thirty-two-year-old general manager, has other plans. She needs Diane to save the property with an intimate Chef's Table experience—and she won't take no for an answer.
Forced together in the heat of the kitchen, their enemies-to-lovers tension shifts from antagonistic to electric. Kenzie challenges Diane to care about her art again, to stop hiding behind anger. Diane sees through Kenzie's relentless optimism to the exhausted woman beneath—someone who takes care of everyone but herself, who's never allowed herself to want anything just for her own pleasure.
When a New York opportunity offers Diane her old life back, she faces an impossible choice: reclaim her empire, or put down roots in this small coastal town—and in Kenzie's bed—proving she's finally done running from herself.
A grumpy/sunshine age gap romance about reclaiming joy after failure, learning to accept nourishment (literally and emotionally), and discovering that the most dangerous chemistry isn't in the professional kitchen—it's between two women who've starved themselves of love.
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