
Part of Series
The chef cooks up something hot with a local soldier, but when they turn up the heat, they're bound to get burned. After getting harassed, fired, evicted, and left at the altar, chef and photographer, Wendy, needs a clean break from the pain of Colorado. There are too many memories of her mom, and a new start is just what she needs. But when she rolls into Crimson Creek, Texas, to visit her friend her car breaks down, making Wendy want to throw in the apron in defeat. Home for a two-week, mid-deployment break, Jake jumps right back into his old life. With a hovering mom, a crazy ex who claims he’s a dad, and an auto-mechanic shop to run, saving a drenched girl on a rainy highway is just part of his need to regain normalcy. Something hot is cooking between the new chef in town and this soldier. Between the drama with his ex, his mom, her new job managing the Bed and Breakfast, and the emotions of a deployment, there’s a lot of ingredients threatening their budding relationship. Only time will tell if they can cook up something delicious that lasts.
Author

Jane Poller read her way through middle school, and she swore someday she’d be an author. Romance books got her through countless life changes… moves, degrees, having kids, deployments, teaching high school, international living, health coaching, running a wellness business, homeschooling, and more. She finally gave in to the characters in her head demanding their stories be told. The Crimson Creek series is a contemporary steamy small-town romance set in a fictional town in Texas. Speaking of, she lives in Texas with her middle school sweetheart. He’s her real-life hero, Army veteran, and the inspiration for her stories. When she’s not doing all the things, she’s reading and writing. Or arguing with her characters, who refuse to do what she wants. But that’s par for the course, since she’s currently raising teenagers and two dogs. Those reviews really brighten her day and are much appreciated.