Her Best Review Yet

She has the most feared palate in Boston. And she just handed me a failing grade.

At twenty-seven, Maya Calder is holding her dying restaurant together with her bare hands, a load-bearing smile, and a pocket full of handwritten dupe pads. She has ninety days to turn a profit, or the owner sells the building and her staff is out on the street. She doesn't have time for a day off, let alone a distraction.

Then Vivienne Shaw walks in.

Vivienne is the city’s most ruthless food critic. She is forty-one, impossibly composed, famously devastating in print, and hasn’t given a perfect score in a decade. When she leaves an eleven-word critique under a water glass after a disastrous Friday night service, Maya expects a career-ending review.

Instead, she gets a late-night text. Then an after-hours audit. Then a private, course-by-course assessment of Maya’s floor management that feels dangerously like something else entirely.

Vivienne has spent her life scoring from a safe distance, but as the late nights bleed into early mornings, the strict boundaries between critic and manager begin to shatter. But Boston’s food scene is a vicious, observant terrarium. When a viral scandal threatens to burn down Maya's restaurant and Vivienne's twenty-year career in one night, they will both have to decide what they are willing to keep off the record—and what they are willing to lose everything for.

Her Best Review Yet is a high-heat, slow-burn sapphic romance featuring an unapologetic ice queen, a hyper-competent heroine, and a guaranteed happily ever after.