The Last Ticket to the Pass
A Culinary New Adult Romance

About this book:

Julian Vance cooks like a surgeon: precise, calculated, and utterly devoid of chaos. Elena Rossi cooks like a storm: intuitive, reckless, and seasoned with the kind of soul no textbook can teach. They're the two top students at the Culinary Institute of New York, locked in a brutal five-week gauntlet for a single externship at L'Oiseau Bleu—Paris's legendary three-Michelin-star temple under the tyrannical Chef Jean-Luc Foret. The prize is a golden ticket; the cost is watching your rival dismantle everything you believe about food.

Every Tuesday brings a new elimination challenge. Every night brings stolen ladles, sabotaged *mise en place*, and arguments over whether a perfect *tournée* potato matters more than the flavor it sacrifices. Julian thinks Elena's a liability; Elena thinks Julian's a machine. Chef Harrison thinks they're both wrong—and that the only way either survives Foret's kitchen is to become something the other already is. But as the competition heats up and the line between sabotage and flirtation blurs, the kitchen's hottest flame isn't under the sauté pan.

*The Last Ticket to the Pass* serves up a razor-sharp enemies-to-lovers romance where every chapter is a course, every argument a technique, and the final plating depends on whether two opposing philosophies can create something Michelin-worthy together—or burn the restaurant down trying.