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“Kitchen Matches” by Marianne Arkins

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ISBN: 1-60504-183-1
Length: Novella
Price: 3.50
Publication Date: August 12, 2008
Cover art by Dawn Seewer

A feisty auto mechanic and a hunky chef cook up chaos!

Cori Weathers is a wizard with a torque wrench, but the moment she lays eyes on her cooking teacher, Micah DePalma, her lessons turn into a klutzy symphony of flying poultry and burning aprons. It makes no sense. He couldn’t be less her type: tall, skinny, and born with a silver spoon in his mouth. So why is her heart sputtering like a badly tuned engine?

Despite family pressure to date only women of his own social class, something about the cooking-challenged spitfire lights all Micah’s burners. Cori’s a complex dish inside a deceptively simple coating, one he’s willing to risk tackle football and jealous ex-boyfriends to sample.

His every attempt to crack her stubborn heart strikes sparks. Will they ignite the flame of love—or explode into just another kitchen disaster?

Warning: This story contains flying poultry, annoying older brothers, the occasional quote from Shakespeare, and enough sexual tension to overheat ovens—and engines.

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  1. 5 Hearts!

    …a quick-read, fast-paced and so romantic and funny that it has something for everyone. I highly recommend it.

    — Brenda Talley for The Romance Studio

  2. 5 Angels!

    With flying chickens and burning aprons, wise cracking, over-protective brothers and ex-boyfriends that won’t take no for an answer, Kitchen Matches is an entertaining read that you’ll be glad you picked up…

    — Rachel C. for Fallen Angel Reviews

  3. 4 Nymphs!

    …sweet, funny, and enjoyable. A pleasant, well-written story.

    — Sphinx Minx for Literary Nymphs Reviews

  4. …the author has an easy sense of humor that works on me. Her heroine’s klutzy drama in her cooking class, for example, comes off as something an inept person will do rather than a contrived attempt at slapstick comedy. The end result is something that is actually funny. I like Ms Arkins’ style…

    — Mrs. Giggles