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This month’s reading challenge is to read a book with food or a word related to food in the title, even if the book isn’t about food. Here are some suggestions to get you started!
Cream Caramel and Murder
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Holly Holmes loves her new job working in the kitchen at Audley Castle, home to the eccentric and wealthy Audley family.
With her faithful corgi cross, Meatball, by her side, she enjoys a quiet life full of baking, researching old recipes, and trying any fun fitness fad—weighted hula hoop, anyone?
When the bumbling, and cute, Lord Rupert Audley requests some of her scrumptious desserts for his school reunion, she happily gets baking.
Everything is going great until Meatball discovers a hand sticking out of the ground, Princess Alice faints, and Holly gets stuck in the spotlight for murder!
If Holly can’t clear her name, she’ll lose her amazing new life in the beautiful Audley St. Mary, Meatball will go back to the animal shelter, and her freedom will be history.
The Bakery by the Cove
Genre: Contemporary Romance
She wants to go back to Paris and bake. He wants her out of his kitchen, but he needs her.
Ally flies back to Camden Cove as soon as she hears about her father’s heart attack.
When she gets home and realizes that Michael is the replacement at her family’s bakery, she feels completely devastated.
Michael wants the homecoming queen to go back to Paris and leave him alone. Only, he needs her help, whether he wants to admit it or not.
Michael finally breaks down and asks Ally to stay when he realizes she could be good for the bakery, and his heart.
Will Ally return to Paris or will she give up that life for a happily-ever-after in Camden Cove?
Love Is What You Bake of It
Genre: Contemporary Romance
The only love Kally Andarakis is baking is in the form of the sweet treats she whips up in her café, The Coffee Klatch. Kally never believed herself to be a person worthy of love, but when an intoxicating man she considered out of her league pursues her, she risks everything to be with him. Later, when tragedy strikes, truths are revealed that leave Kally brokenhearted and untrusting.
Eight years later, Kally is a successful pastry chef running the café she’d always dreamed of owning. With a home of her own, a profession she’s passionate about, and the support and love of friends and family, Kally is content with the life she has carved out for herself.
Until the day Max Vardaxis walks into her café . . .
With arguing parents, meddling relatives, an overly energetic grandmother, a man-crazy best friend, and the long ago, mysterious disappearance of a grandfather, this new man in town is just one more complication in Kally’s life, if not the main one. Kally must now decide whether to keep her heart safe or to once again take a “whisk on love.”
Bon Bons to Yoga Pants
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Lexie Greene has always had such a pretty face.
Unfortunately, that’s where it seemed to stop. She’s grown up hearing her Mother constantly remind her that she needs to lose weight. And twenty-three-year-old Lexie knows she’s overweight.
With her younger sister’s wedding on the horizon and a crush to stalk on Facebook, Lexie’s had enough. She gives up her constant daydreams about food and joins a dieting group. As the pounds melt away at the gym, she finds that life on the other side of junk food isn’t what she thought.
Twelfth Cake House
Genre: Historical Romance
Mid-December 1796.
Sixty-year-old spinster Miss Jemima Thurgood has three weeks to finish the preparations for her annual Twelfth Night party. In her position as a matchmaker, for over forty years she has assumed a grave responsibility. Luckily, she’s a shrewd observer of people, and many happy reunions have come about due to her exceptional talent for nudging kindred hearts in the right direction.
Every year, Jemima invites twelve carefully selected men and women to her festivity, and each guest is assigned a dinner partner. The days before the merrymaking are constantly disrupted by one unforeseen event after another. Jemima must work hard to be ready in time, and more importantly, to provide the kind of celebration her chosen guests deserve.
But this year, what Jemima doesn’t know is that her life is about to take a sudden change of course—one she could not have predicted or planned for. As the days pass, several gentlemen indicate they are interested in becoming better acquainted with her, but only a very special man can charm a matchmaker.
What will you be reading for this month’s reading challenge? Let us know in the comments below!
Happy reading.
I’m going to read “DEAD BEFORE DINNER” by Kat Bellemore. It’s the first book in the Maddie Swallows cozy mysteries.
For the cooking challenge, I will be reading Cutthroat Cupcakes by Cate Lawley.
I finished the book last night. The heroine learns something shocking: she is a witch. That wasn’t what I expected, but the magic is woven into the story well and there are some interesting support characters, and a hero, of course.