Never Resist Temptation by Miranda Neville

First line:  Nothing in Anthony’s upbringing or experience had taught him the proper etiquette for taking delivery of a woman won in a card game.

Does the first line intrigue you?  True.  He won the girl in a card game, but she was no fool!  She ran away before her uncle could turn her over.  Her cover?  Running away with her uncle’s favorite French pastry chef, never to be seen again. 

Well, almost.

The pastry chef is gay.  And living in Paris.  She, however, opts to make her own way – as a young man.  And, ha! A pastry chef, as well.

The hero offers her a job to draw her uncle out.  It turns out he has a score to settle, and wants to ruin him.  Socially.  Financially.  Unfortunately, he doesn’t know French a sweet pastry from an English pudding.  When someone tries to poison her uncle at the house party where she is now employed, she decides to take him up on his offer of employment.  For her female cousin.  Her!

Now she has to find out who tried to kill her uncle, because she is the one under suspicion, the one with the primary motive.

The story is cute.  I expect Miranda Neville will have many more stories to tell.

For:  Readers who fun mystery intertwined with loads of spun sugar and sweets. by Kathy Wheeler

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