Preston Pruitt put aside his dreams of becoming a gourmet chef at a high-end restaurant to raise his daughter while her mother was on active duty in Afghanistan. Now Abby is a precocious eight-year-old in love with fairies and princesses, and Preston works at an unimaginative and monotonous job as a short order cook.<br><br>Abby has her quirks, and when she tries to wear a pair of costume wings for her school pictures, her father is called to help talk her out of them. That's when Preston meets Cam Richards, a handsome photographer with his own studio in town. Between Cam's quick smile and flirty manner, Preston is smitten and surprises himself by asking the guy out. Late night phone calls lead to dinner dates, and soon Preston is falling for Cam. It helps that Abby approves of her father's new special friend.<br><br>With Cam’s encouragement, Preston gets the chance to interview for an executive chef position. Now that he has all the ingredients, will he finally fulfill his dream of becoming a top chef and find the perfect recipe for romance?

Recipe for Romance

As Preston navigated out of the parking lot, he looked sideways at Cam. “Do you really? Because cowboys are hot.”


“I’m sure I could rustle some up, pardner,” Cam drawled. “Not real ones, of course, but props from another studio. After we do the whole reading French in bed thing. Au naturale.”


Preston grinned. “You know, you keep saying you don’t know any French, and then you bust out with these words and phrases at the oddest times that make me think you know more than you think you do.”


“I thought it was nicer than saying buck naked in front of you know who,” Cam pointed out.


Behind them, Abby looked up from the app on Preston’s phone. “What?” 14


It was nice seeing Mel and Jocelyn again, though Preston was nervous to finally meet Greg. He was a tall, bearish man with thick, sandy hair and a heavy beard that Preston hadn’t expected. Whenever he’d thought of Greg, he’d always pictured a clean-cut man in a business suit, trim and fit, with a winning smile and firm handshake.


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