You would think that would be enough, wouldn't you? It seems, however, that she has also discovered another talent--matchmaking! Firm in her belief that good food is a way to a man's stomach, and his heart, she is convinced she can bring her friends (and maybe foes?) together for a perfect match. After some success getting her sister back together with her old boyfriend (Home for the Holidays), she sets out to test her matchmaking ability on the one woman in Legend who no one thinks will ever get married, Mary Lou Picketts. Suzie figures if she can find the perfect match for Mary Lou, she's in business. And so, the story Perfectly Matched, was born, hooking up Mary Lou with country music star Nash Rhodes.
In Hot Crossed Buns, Katie Long gets tamed by local Legend cop, Chris Marks. Dates du Jour finds Lyssa Larkin, homecoming queen of 1992, wanting to get married just so she can get a divorce. In Side Dish, Becca North, who has totally sworn off men, finds herself swept off her feet by her best friend's date. And finally, in Mate to Order, the producer of Suzie's Food Channel show, Patricia Plum, puts in her order for a husband. Each novella in the series stands on its own and is available first in ebook, then together in one print volume in 2011.
Suzie Matthews is busy working on her new cookbook, Perfectly Matched, when she asks the local “wallflower” to help her with her project, in an attempt to bring the young woman out of her shell.
Mary Lou Picketts dreams of falling in love with country music star, Nash Rhodes, but knows she’d settle for Thurman Phillips down the street if she had to. But she doesn’t want to. Not really.
When Nash comes to Legend for a music benefit and stays at the lodge, Suzie wonders if she can perfectly match this miss-matched couple.
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Wild Katie Long, she’ll never settle down, will she?
But Chris Marks has had his eye set on her for a long time. She just doesn’t know it yet. When Chris hires Suzie to set him up with a romantic dinner for two, so he can woo Katie in style, Suzie does all she can to set the scene and the mood.
But Katie isn’t about to be wooed and she’s hotter than a hot crossed bun when she figures out what Suzie and Chris are up to.
Then Suzie turns the tables on both of them, when she switches the mood by supplying Chris with a couple of items that just might tame Katie after all – handcuffs and a leather riding crop.
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Speed dating? Speed eating is more like it.
When Suzie sets up lunch date after lunch date for Lyssa Larkin, Legend’s homegrown homecoming queen of 1992, she knows she’s about bit off more than she can chew. Lyssa inspects and rejects her dates in two bites and then sends them on their way. Suzie wonders if she really wants to date or just eat two lunches, and worries that soon Lyssa’s hips won’t fit on her dainty chairs.
That is, until Suzie takes a risk with a man the exact opposite of what Lyssa describes as “perfect for her.” When he won’t leave when Lyssa dismisses him, or let her get near his plate with her fork, Suzie knows she’s scored again.
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Becca North doesn’t want a boyfriend but her best friend Nora certainly does. Becca is soooo off men.
But when Nora pays the Matchmaking Chef to plan her a romantic picnic date lunch—a blind date, no less—she drags Becca along all the way from Pigeon Forge for moral support, and to check out her date.
Thing is, Nora’s date would rather check out Becca instead.
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When Suzie’s success as a matchmaker hits the national scene about the same time as her debut cooking show on the food channel, her new producer comes to her with a list of requirements—not for Suzie’s job, but for a husband.
Patricia Plum has a specific list and if Suzie really wants to make it big in New York, she’ll make every attempt to deliver, Patricia’s “Mate to Order.”
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The Matchmaking Chef series II
High tea or sweet tea? As long as there are scones, it doesn’t matter. In fact, Sydney Schul, owner of Sydney’s Sugar High Coffee Stop and Bakery in Legend, Tennessee, makes the best damn scones east of the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon, and there was an article written about her in Southern’s Best magazine to prove it. And all is well and life in Legend is good, until a mysterious stranger comes to town, stalking her scones.
Stone Kellerman, owner of Stone's Scones in Atlanta, has held the title of Best Scones of the South for five years now—that is, until little Sydney Schul comes into the picture, and Southern's Best Magazine awards her the coveted title. So, he can't help himself when he travels north to Tennessee to check out her scones. Thing is, he never intended to be a stalker of scones, or her scone recipe, until he got one bite of the heavenly confection... And one look at Sydney.
When Scott Matthews escapes to Legend to visit his brother, Brad and family, he has only one request-he doesn't want to see, hear, smell, or taste chocolate. Nor does he want to talk about the chocolate business, or about getting fired from his job as chocolate taster for world-renowned Bianchi Chocolates. Or the scandal in Italy, or his former boss-slash-girlfriend, or the tabloid article....
What he needs is a palate-cleanse, women and chocolate being on the top of the list.
What Jillian Bass needs is to make it in Legend. This Manhattan transplant knows nothing about small town living other than she wants to make it big here real bad. Forget New York, she's trying to set up her small chocolate shop and impress the locals-especially the foodie duo of Sydney Kellerman and Suzie Matthews. Of course, she doesn't tell them that she really owns Jeaneva Chocolates, or that her father is a big publishing mogul, or that she's lied about how she makes her chocolates....
But all is fine until the day she smacks straight into Scott. Who at first, refuses to eat her chocolate, but after one whiff of her exquisite Belgian truffle, forgets his vow and takes a bite.
Then against his better judgment, he takes another....
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New Year’s Eve sits just around the corner and Legend Elementary teacher, Patti Jo Baker, has tried every trick in the book to land a date for the annual New Year’s Eve Bash at The Lodge. In final desperation, she takes her best friend Kate’s advice and gives Suzie Matthews, Legend’s own matchmaking chef, a call. Suzie tells her right away she can solve her dilemma—but only if she’s serious about finding a husband, because Suzie has a reputation to uphold, don’t you know.
Jim Hamilton, Legend Elementary School’s principal, doesn’t know what’s gotten into him of late—he can’t get Patti Jo Baker off his mind. Smart and quirky were two words he’d always used to describe Patti, but lately the word irresistible was edging out the other two. Too bad he’s married to his job, and too bad he doesn’t date his teachers.
Too bad he’s not jealous, either, or at least that’s what he thinks. Because when Patti sets up a kissing booth at the Legend Elementary Winter Carnival, he promptly and decisively shuts it down. If Patty Jo Baker is passing out kisses, he wants to be both first, and last, in line—and he definitely doesn’t want to sample them in front of the student body.
Read more about Suzie Matthews and The Matchmaking Chef series at Suzie's own web site, www.suziecooks.com
The Matchmaking Chef books by Maddie James are found at Fictionwise.com, All Romance eBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com. Ask for them at your local retailer!
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