Heat On The Line: a spicy romance
Kristen Cruz arrives forty minutes late to the biggest cooking competition of her life. The pantry has been stripped, the clock is running, and fifty thousand dollars could change everything for her struggling food truck.Then Joseph Huckstep comes to her station.YouTube’s golden-palate prodigy has built a career on finding what other cooks get wrong. One look at Kristen’s food, and he dismisses it as a gimmick.She makes him taste it.But after the prelims, she leaves with a new problem: Joe keeps turning up.
At her truck. Across her counter. Under her skin.
Every conversation becomes an argument, and every argument brings them closer to crossing a line neither of them can uncross.Kristen came to win a cooking competition. Joe may be the one person capable of understanding what she puts on a plate—and the one complication that could cost her everything.Heat on the Line is a high-heat contemporary romance featuring a Latina food-truck chef, a celebrity food critic with an impossible palate, combative chemistry, explicit open-door scenes, and a happy-for-now ending.