She's got a recipe for romance. He's throwing that cookbook out!
Middle-school teacher Amy Larkin has a foolproof plan: find Mr. Right using a step-by-step marriage guide. Forget pulses racing and butterflies fluttering. No swiping right or scrolling profiles either. She's meeting men the old-fashioned way to evaluate them using her detailed list. She wants compatibility, shared values, and someone who dreams of the family she's always longed for.
There's just one problem: Jake Weston.
Contractor, workaholic, and the infuriatingly attractive grandson of Amy's beloved neighbor, Jake has been a fixture in her life for ten years. Part family friend...
All trouble.
When Amy moves into his beach house for the summer and enlists his help finding husband candidates, Jake thinks she's lost her mind. But watching her date other men while treating him like a pseudo-brother? That churns something dangerously like jealousy in his gut.
Time to launch a counterplan. Using her book against her, Jake is determined to prove to Amy?no matter what it takes?that he's the only man who measures up.
Between disastrous blind dates, inedible dinners, and moonlit confessions on the beach, Amy discovers her foolproof recipe might be missing the most essential ingredient. Can she risk everything on a man who's never wanted marriage?or is she cooking up heartbreak?
A light-hearted romcom about perfect plans, imperfect people, and finding love.
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A Recipe for Romance!
Armed with her trusty new guidebook to marriage, domestic science teacher Amy Larkin thinks finding the perfect mate will be easy as pie. A dash of this, a pinch of that and Voila! Wedding cake!
In Jake Weston's opinion, Amy is crazy. Certifiable. With her cookbook approach to marriage, his childhood nemesis shouldn't be unleashed on the unsuspecting bachelors of California. Especially since she's informed him passion was out, and practicality in - and particularly since she'd looked so sexy when she'd said it.
So when Amy tries to recruit him to find likely husband prospects, Jake decides to take matters into his own hands....