This Christmas, a childhood promise comes callingā¦
Clementine Hardy always wanted to be a librarian in her Marietta hometown. But at thirty, she fears sheās become too predictableāso she quits, books a European vacation, and accepts a research job in New York. Then on her birthday, a hunky piece of her past arrives, drops to bended knee, and proposes in front of half the town.
Bad boy celebrity chef Jude Barlow is done with the bright lights and late nights. He sells his Manhattan restaurant and volunteers in Africa to clear his head. A year later, heās a new man with a new goal: find the girl from summer campāthe most practical woman he knowsāand collect on the pinky promise they made when they were twelve.
Clem wonāt marry a guy she hasnāt seen in nearly two decades, no matter how attractive or how talented he is in and out of her kitchen. But why does he have to look more delicious than the chocolate creations he concocts for the Graff Hotel? More delicious than anything in New York?
This Christmas, a childhood promise comes callingā¦
Clementine Hardy always wanted to be a librarian in her Marietta hometown. But at thirty, she fears sheās become too predictableāso she quits, books a European vacation, and accepts a research job in New York. Then on her birthday, a hunky piece of her past arrives, drops to bended knee, and proposes in front of half the town.
Bad boy celebrity chef Jude Barlow is done with the bright lights and late nights. He sells his Manhattan restaurant and volunteers in Africa to clear his head. A year later, heās a new man with a new goal: find the girl from summer campāthe most practical woman he knowsāand collect on the pinky promise they made when they were twelve.
Clem wonāt marry a guy she hasnāt seen in nearly two decades, no matter how attractive or how talented he is in and out of her kitchen. But why does he have to look more delicious than the chocolate creations he concocts for the Graff Hotel? More delicious than anything in New York?