A Serving of Scandal
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Kate McKinnon is thirty-six and mother to Toby. She used to be a restaurant chef but that all stopped when Toby--now five--came along and changed everything. Now she has a small but thriving business catering for private clients, companies and some government departments. Her life is on an even keel.
Then she gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He's married and a father and totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him. She thinks she's hiding it beautifully, but there are people who would like to see her fail and to them her feelings are all too transparent.
When someone alerts the gutter press, who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not? It's a great story and will shift a ton of newspapers--and destroy several lives at the same time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British celebrity chef Leith (The Choral Society) charms with this story of the friendship between single caterer Kate McKinnon and married British Foreign Secretary Oliver Stapler. Oliver's appreciation for and knowledge of food is a perfect match for Kate's skill in crafting meals, increasing their mutual regard. When a scandal-hungry tabloid accuses them of having an affair, their lives are thrown into turmoil. Oliver's career and marriage disintegrate, and he must reconsider the assumptions he's made about his life and ambitions. Kate's catering business collapses as she loses government contracts and is hounded by merciless reporters, and she realizes that her innocent feelings for Oliver have blossomed into desire. For all its tangled relationships, this tale is really a three-way romance among food, those who prepare it, and those who eat it; descriptions of "scratch" meals are as appealing as those of the gourmet dinners Kate creates, and when she describes cooking as "an act of love," the true heart of the story is revealed.
