Champagne Taste on a Bad Boy Budget by Zuri DayPerfectly balancing sweetness and steam. Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Stuck in the Country with You She's a good girl trying to rebuild her restaurant. He's a felon trying to rebuildeverything. Second chances have never been so sweet. For Jamilah Carver, a by the books entrepreneur with refined tastes, running her own restaurant has been a dream come true. Until shes buried in debt and without a chef, her once bustling eatery on the brink of

I grew up with men who treated bullets like sugar cubes

Author note: for all tropes

a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past

Suddenly unemployed and on the brink of eviction

and the lines between what’s real and what’s fake begin to blur

he didn't take the lead

only a race car driver will do…

even when he didn’t believe in himself

But in the process

The physical connection between them is incendiary

He is not a cliché

it beats for the one woman I never saw coming