LOVE ON A LOW SIMMER

In the kitchen, just like in love, a fire on a low simmer is the most dangerous.Twelve years ago, Rebecca fled New Orleans with a broken heart, leaving behind her best friend and the only place that ever felt like home. Today, as a relentless Michelin-starred corporate chef in Chicago, she has perfected the art of feeling nothing. Her world is white, cold, and perfectly controlled.Until her firm sends her back to the humid, chaotic streets of the Marigny to audit a failing restaurant . The problem? The owner is none other than Camille-freshly divorced, drowning in debt, and clinging to her grandmother's legacy with everything she has .The clash is immediate. Rebecca demands military discipline; Camille defends the magic of Cajun soul . But between the stifling heat of the stoves, the scent of woodsmoke, and late nights that stretch into dawn, their old synchrony awakens something far deeper than nostalgia . Camille, who has spent years living a gray, safe life, suddenly discovers a wild, unknown hunger for the ice-queen chef who backs her against the kitchen counters .Will Rebecca be willing to risk her empire for the woman who broke her heart? And will Camille find the courage to finally taste the life she has always denied herself?A slow-burn sapphic romance about second chances, where the looks burn hotter than the kitchen fires.