Recipe For Disaster
Take one estranged Italian family, a celebrity chef cousin, add a secret inheritance, a pinch of family rivalry and a red hot hunk for taste. Mix and simmer until boiling point!Bunty Brannigan knew turning thirty would be tough, but she never expected her life would unravel before the candles on her cake had been blown out… But before Bunty can say Mozzarella, she discovers that she is in line to inherit controlling shares in the Caruso family business and someone has attacked her charming celebrity chef cousin Luca in her deli.Throw in a sizzling hot Italian lawyer and her birthday has turned Bunty’s world upside down!Praise for Nina Harrington'This is an entertaining read full of wonderful, engaging characters. (And lots of authentic yummy sounding food!!) ' - Harlequin Junkie'a lovely little book' - The Book Geek Wears Pajamas'Nina Harrington’s “Recipe for disaster ” is a delightful read. The story is about family, dreams, second chances or even third for some exceptional cases, taking charge of your life when you’ve just turned thirty and It’s never too late.' - Imagicalia
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Take one estranged Italian family,
A celebrity chef cousin,
Add a secret inheritance,
A pinch of family rivalry,
And a red-hot hunk for taste.
Mix and simmer until boiling point!
Bunty Brannigan knew turning thirty would be tough, but she never expected her life would unravel before the candles on her cake had been blown outâ¦
But before Bunty can say Mozzarella, she discovers that she is in line to inherit controlling shares in the Caruso family business and someone has attacked her charming celebrity chef cousin Luca in her deli.
Throw in a sizzling hot Italian lawyer and her birthday has turned Buntyâs world upside down!
RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Nina Harrington
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2013
Copyright © Nina Harrington 2013
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E-book Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9781472017130
Version date: 2018-06-20
Nina Harrington grew up in rural Northumberland, England and decided, aged eleven, that she was going to be a librarian, because then she could read all of the books in the public library whenever she wanted!
Since then she has been a shop assistant, community pharmacist, technical writer, university lecturer, volcano walker, and industrial scientist, before taking a career break to realise her dream of being a fiction writer.
When she is not creating stories that make her readers smile, her hobbies are cooking, eating, enjoying good wine, and talking, for which she has had specialist training.
Contents
Chapter One
Friday
âHi, Bunty. Isnât he the dreamiest?â
Bunty Brannigan whirled around on the narrow London footpath and grinned at her old school friend Pippa, who was sneaking a quick cigarette in the doorway of the bookshop where she worked.
âI thought you had stopped smoking, Pip.â
âHey. Lent is still a few months away and I need something to give up and it is not going to be my latest man crush, thatâs for sure.â
Bunty snorted through her nose and dodged the pedestrians to step closer. âWho is tickling your fancy this time? The sales rep who slips you all of those free books? Or another hero from those hot erotica novels you keep trying to persuade me to read?â
Pippa shrugged and looked back longingly at the window display before replying with a slow sigh of frustrated lust. âThey are nothing to me now compared to the lovely Luca.â
Bunty followed her gaze, gasped and stood frozen outside the bookshop. In an instant her shoulders slumped towards the pavement.
âOh, mozzarella balls!â
Bunty couldnât help it. The words came tumbling out of her mouth before she could stop them.
The downside of ghost writing your cousinâs cookery books was that sometimes you had to see a collection of your precious recipes â the traditional Italian dishes you had slaved late into the night to perfect â with Luca Carusoâs face plastered all over the cover.
And there he was.
Leering at her from behind the hardback copies of what the huge cardboard placard declared to be the eagerly awaited latest cookbook from Italyâs hottest new television chef.
Luca Caruso. Her least favourite cousin from her Italian family.
âHe really is to die for,â Pippa drooled, gazing up at the life-size colour poster of Luca that dominated the bookshop window. âIf only we had dreamy Italians like that around here every day.â
Bunty stared up at the poster and dreamy was not the first word that came to mind at that moment.
The stylist had gone overboard this time and the Luca who smirked back at her was just too perfect, too smooth and way too arrogant and oily to be digestible.
Real chefs did not have manicures and dental veneers, and that self-satisfied pout made her want to grab the placard and tear it to shreds.
