Ingredients:
One plus-size pastry chef with a shot at a major food award and a heart she swears is off-limits.
One restaurant manager, recently divorced and determined not to fall again.
A secret friends-with-benefits arrangement that’s gotten a little too complicated—and a lot too sweet.
Directions:
Blend kitchen heat, professional dreams, and late-night cravings.
Fold in jealousy, temptation, and a heaping dash of tenderness.
Let rise until casual turns into something that tastes a lot like love.
Best served warm, with sugar, spice, and a spread of joy.
Take a bite of this deliciously steamy queer M/F best friends-with-benefits romance novella, where love might just be the sweetest indulgence of all.
Layla Reyne is the author of What We May Be and the Agents Irish and Whiskey, Changing Lanes, and Table for Two series. She writes sexy, intense LGBTQIA+ romance featuring competent adults in kitchens, sports arenas, car chases, and other high-stakes situations. Whether it’s adrenaline-fueled suspense, rival athletes, vampires and shifters in alt-realms, or love mixed with mouth-watering foodie goodness, queer folks finding happily-ever-afters is guaranteed.