RATCATCHER (The Mother Wolf Bakery Series)

Ten years is a long time to nurse a grudge — but apparently not long enough.

When Ashley Morgan Lobo steps back into a professional kitchen, she's ready for the heat, the chaos, and the relentless pressure of the culinary world. What she's not ready for is Raffael Lambrou standing on the other side of the pass, looking infuriatingly good and completely unbothered by the decade of wreckage he left behind.

Raffael shattered Ashley's heart ten years ago and walked away without looking back. Now, trapped together in the high-stakes environment of a struggling restaurant, they're forced to do the one thing neither of them wants — cooperate. Their exchanges are sharp as chef's knives, their history is complicated as any sauce, and the kitchen feels smaller every single day. Ashley tells herself the heat she feels is just the stovetop. Raffael tells himself he's over her. They're both lying.

RATCATCHER is a sizzling contemporary workplace romance that proves the line between hatred and desire is dangerously thin when you spend twelve hours a day inches apart from someone who once knew every part of you. As old wounds crack open alongside their professional pressures, Ashley and Raffael must decide whether the past is something to survive — or something to finally move beyond, together.

For readers who love their romance with a slow burn, a sharp wit, and a second chance worth fighting for, this one is impossible to put down.