Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars
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4.1 • 9 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
In this delectable novel, a chef on the rise fuels her passion for cooking while enduring the hardest challenges she’s ever faced after a debilitating injury.
Everybody wants a piece of grand chef Sophie Valroux. With her once-destroyed reputation fully recovered and then some, Sophie is making her mark in the culinary world. She’s running the restaurants of Château de Champvert, the beautiful estate that she inherited from her grandmother. She and her fiancé, Rémi, are closer than ever, and she’s even bonding with his daughter Lola. Everything should be perfect.
Yet, Sophie still feels something in her heart is missing.
When she’s invited to cook at an exclusive event her culinary idol is attending, she thinks this could be the thing to catapult her to greater heights, maybe even bring her one step closer to her one and only dream of achieving the stars—Michelin stars.
But fate has other plans for Sophie. After she accepts to cook for the Parisian elite, her world crumbles. She suffers a fall and loses her senses of smell and taste. Certain that her career will vanish if people find out, she keeps this secret to herself, not even telling Rémi. She fakes it all: the menus for every meal, the taste of fresh figs, the juicy cherries in the orchard. All she has to do is get through life—and the event—tasteless without missing a single step. Fake it ‘til you make it…right?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Vérant cooks up another winner in the Valroux series (after The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux). After facing a humiliating firing from a restaurant in New York City, French chef Sophie is back in her native Champvert, France, still aiming for Michelin stars while running her family's estate and its restaurants. Newly engaged to colleague Remi and a bit scared at the prospect of becoming a stepmother to his adorable daughter, Lola, who is almost three, Sophie is living her dream—until a freak accident causes her to lose her senses of taste and smell. The ambitious chef tries to carry on as if nothing has happened, but without her legendary palate, it may be game over. Along the way, she also learns that her cooking idol is a nasty, unscrupulous woman with feet of clay, and another loathsome character (who happens to be her idol's stepson) gets a very appropriate comeuppance. Vérant's loving and luscious descriptions of delightful dishes will whet readers' appetites, and her heroine's spirit and pluck feel alive on the page. This can easily be read as a delightful standalone.
