Suzie Matthews (from Bed, Breakfast and You in Finding Home) loves to cook and she’s the best darned cook in Legend,
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 (August, 2009), Becca North, who has sworn off men, finds herself swept off her feet by her best friend's date. And finally, in Mate to Order (September, 2009), 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 early 2010.
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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Hot Crossed Buns
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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Hot Crossed Buns is now available at Resplendence Publishing.
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Dates Du Jour
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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Side Dish
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.
Coming in August, 2009.
Mate to Order
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
Coming in September, 2009
Coming to you from Resplendence Publishing throughout 2009!
Read more about The Matchmaking Chef series and Suzie Matthews at www.suziecooks.com
