Cook the Books — Susan Conant; Jessica Conant-Park

If you can't stand the heat...

Still smarting over the breakup with her boyfriend, Josh, who took a job as a personal chef in Hawaii, Chloe Carter knows that assisting a cookbook writer may stir up painful memories. But the Gourmet Girl is desperate for money! While compiling a book of recipes from Boston's top chefs, Chloe must deal with Josh's friends, including the loudmouthed but lovable Digger. Chloe stays cool until she arrives at his apartment only to find the building -- and Digger -- thoroughly charred.

Chloe knows that Digger was too expert a chef to let a grease fire kill him. This was murder. Putting her feelings on the back burner, she sifts through suspects. But as an executive chef with a thorny love life, Digger had enemies by the dozen. Matters will get even stickier if the tragedy brings Josh back to Boston -- and back into Chloe's life.