Straight on Toward Paradise

Chef Emma Bertram doesn't believe in the fantasy of happily ever after. As a teenager, she witnessed the destruction of her parents' marriage when her father left for another woman. Lingering bitterness and a demanding career have kept her apart from her father's new family for years. Then he and stepmother are suddenly killed. Returning to her childhood home of Shellwater Key, Florida, Emma suddenly finds herself with custody of her two half-sisters. Left with no choice but to stay in...
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Chef Emma Bertram doesn't believe in the fantasy of happily ever after. As a teenager, she witnessed the destruction of her parents' marriage when her father left for another woman. Lingering bitterness and a demanding career have kept her apart from her father's new family for years. Then he and stepmother are suddenly killed. Returning to her childhood home of Shellwater Key, Florida, Emma suddenly finds herself with custody of her two half-sisters. Left with no choice but to stay in Shellwater Key, Emma accepts a job offer from her best friend Layla McCarthy as Head Chef at the old Paradise Dinner Theatre. Renovating the dilapidated kitchen just might kill her and nothing has prepared her to become an instant mother. But it's not her new job or her sisters that threaten Emma's peace of mind. No, that honor belongs to her father's law partner, Reece Casings. The buttoned-up, so-wrong-for-her, but oh-so-sexy lawyer makes Emma's blood boil. Or is it heart race? How can she be attracted to a man who is so wrong for her in every way? A man who clearly blames Emma for the fractured relationship with her father and who loves to point out everything she's doing wrong?Except she cannot deny that Reece touches something in her that no man has before. Then an explosive secret boils to the surface that reveals Reece's real connection to her family. Can Emma get past the truth? And can she ever learn to forgive her father - and herself - in order to serve up a delicious happily ever after?