Secret Ingredient: Love

THE WAY TO A BACHELOR'S HEART:

1 Alex Marchetti–die-hard bachelor

1 Fran Carlino–marriage-shy beauty

1 simmering attraction

2 matchmaking families

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1 secret ingredient: love

Combine passionate, hotheaded chef Fran Carlino and supercool, straitlaced bachelor Alex Marchetti. Slowly increase their mutual attraction. Add a dash of tension (neither claims to be the marrying kind), a generous spoonful of romantic spice and round off with a lot of familial stirring.

Finally, mix business with pleasure, turn up the heat and wait for the delectable developments….

About the author

Teresa Southwick lives with her husband in Las Vegas, the city that reinvents itself every day. An avid fan of romance novels, she is delighted to be living out her dream of writing for Harlequin.