Take one estranged Italian family,
A celebrity chef cousin,
Add a secret inheritance,
A pinch of family rivalry,
And a red-hot hunk for taste.
Mix and simmer until boiling point!
Bunty Brannigan knew turning thirty would be tough, but she never expected her life would unravel before the candles on her cake had been blown out…
But before Bunty can say Mozzarella, she discovers that she is in line to inherit controlling shares in the Caruso family business and someone has attacked her charming celebrity chef cousin Luca in her deli.
Throw in a sizzling hot Italian lawyer and her birthday has turned Bunty’s world upside down!
RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Nina Harrington
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2013
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E-book Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9781472017130
Version date: 2018-06-20
Nina Harrington grew up in rural Northumberland, England and decided, aged eleven, that she was going to be a librarian, because then she could read all of the books in the public library whenever she wanted!
Since then she has been a shop assistant, community pharmacist, technical writer, university lecturer, volcano walker, and industrial scientist, before taking a career break to realise her dream of being a fiction writer.
When she is not creating stories that make her readers smile, her hobbies are cooking, eating, enjoying good wine, and talking, for which she has had specialist training.
Contents
Chapter One
Friday
‘Hi, Bunty. Isn’t he the dreamiest?’
Bunty Brannigan whirled around on the narrow London footpath and grinned at her old school friend Pippa, who was sneaking a quick cigarette in the doorway of the bookshop where she worked.
‘I thought you had stopped smoking, Pip.’
‘Hey. Lent is still a few months away and I need something to give