Rory Perez, a food truck owner who can't cook, is struggling to keep the business she inherited from her aunt out of the red - and an upcoming contest during Modest's annual food truck festival seems the best way to do it. The prize money could finally give her a solid financial footing and keep her cousin with special needs paid up at her beloved assisted living home. Then maybe Rory will have enough time to meet the man she's been talking to via an anonymous online dating site.
Jude Strong is tired of being a puppet at his manipulative father's law firm, and the food truck festival seems like the perfect opportunity to dive into his passion for cooking and finally call his life his own. But if he loses the contest, he's back at the law firm for good. Failure is not an option.
Complications arise when Rory's chef gets mono and she realises she has to cook after all. Then Jude discovers that his stiffest competition is the same woman he's been falling for online the past month.
Will these unlikely chefs sacrifice it all for the name of love? Or will there only ever be tacos for one?
Rory Perez owns a food truck specialising in her late aunt’s tacos, but she relies on chef Grady and hides the fact that she can’t cook and her business is in financial trouble. Jude Strong is at odds with his scheming father and brother, loves cooking and hates working at the family law firm. When Jude buys a food truck of his own, his father gives him an ultimatum: If he wins the town’s Food Truck Festival contest he can leave the firm. But the odds are stacked against him – and he doesn’t realise that the woman he’s been falling for online is the same woman he’s in competition with for the Festival prize! And her need to win is at least as desperate as his.
This is a brilliantly written twist on the plot of You’ve Got Mail, and the references and quotes pop up throughout the book. It’s an energetic and funny read with some mystery elements which add spice to the mix. I really enjoyed it, which says something about the way the author writes, since Rory is decidedly unlikeable on a number quite a few occasions. She’s often self-obsessed and quick to make negative assumptions about Jude, such as accusing him multiple times of using her, or her young cousin Hannah. She’s not so quick to realise that she’s often guilty of the very thing she’s accusing Jude – usually incorrectly – of. And she makes an astonishingly racist comment to him. Anyone who likes You’ve Got Mail will be entertained by this one. Quite honestly though, if I were Jude I think I’d’ve dropped Rory like a hot potato, but he’s much nicer than me!
- 9780800738907, Revell, UK release November 2021
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