Hot Nights

Heir to the Calabrese restaurant empire, Jackson Calabrese can buy whatever he wants—except creativity. He can craft perfect paella, but if his new restaurant is going to take New York by storm, he'll need help. And there's only one chef with the culinary creativity to reinvent their menu: former rival-and lover-Lila Grant. The one woman with all the right ingredients to drive Jackson wild. And damned if he doesn't want another taste.

Pastry chef Jenna Cooper crushed hard on playboy chef Roman Gallagher when her older brother brought him home to share their family Christmas six years ago. Now she's old enough to do something about it, and she won't take no for an answer—for anything. Roman has one hard and fast rule—don't sleep where you eat. But he can't say no to Jenna's plea for him to help her save her family business. Soon she's working for him, and their scorching chemistry melts Roman's resistance. He wants more than a few hot nights, and he's going to teach Jenna a lesson about playing with fire.

Betsy Mouton knows that easy doesn't last forever. She's working her butt off to launch the Last Call Cafe so her family can leave the New Orleans bar business—its heartaches—behind forever. That is, until the hottest one-night-stand of her life shows up next door, twice as uncompromising and two million times hotter, offering to buy the bar and send the Moutons to easy street.