Hungry Love - by Tomiko Diaz (Paperback)

About the Book

After a break-up, a food editor escapes to a remote Pacific Northwest island, where cooking for the heartbroken forces her to confront her ex's infuriating older brother in this witty, emotionally charged slow-burn romance.

Book Synopsis

Ava Diaz has always been the one holding everything together: a rising food editor who gave up her dreams to be a chef, a devoted girlfriend, and a survivor of a childhood that taught her that love comes with fine print. But when a dinner she's sure will end in a proposal takes an unexpected turn instead, Ava's carefully curated life collapses in a single course.

The last person Ava expects to offer her a lifeline is Gavin Jones, her ex's older brother-guarded, maddeningly observant, and impossible to ignore. A man who has always treated her like a problem he can't quite solve. So when he offers her a summer job as his private chef on a remote Pacific Northwest island, she surprises herself by saying yes.

It should be simple.

But what begins as a temporary arrangement becomes something far messier and more intimate.

Surrounded by wild shorelines, hidden coves, evergreen forests, farmers markets, and salt air, the island has a way of softening even the hardest hearts.

As Ava cooks for Gavin and others on the island who are nursing private losses of their own, she begins to wonder if the life she thought she wanted was never really hers-and if the thing she's most afraid to want is exactly what she's been missing.

Review Quotes

"For fans of Emily Henry and Abby Jimenez, a deliciously funny debut rom-com about ambition, appetite, and the kind of slow-burn chemistry that refuses to stay on the back burner." -Sara Farish, Darvill's Bookstore