Jami Alden, Delicious

Delicious

Jami Alden

Kensington Aphrodisia, November 2006, $12.95

ISBN: 0758215320

Chef Reggie Caldwell hosts the extremely popular Simply Delicious with Reggie Caldwell show on the Cuisine Network, and she is working on a cookbook. However, though on top of the world, Reggie receives explicit letters and pictures of genitals. Her sister Natalie persuades her to take it seriously, so they go to the nearest San Francisco Police Department station where Sergeant Mulvaney, though a fan, admits the SFPD can do nothing for her.

Reggie hires a bodyguard, Gabe Bankovic, whom she shared a fabulous night with in Hawaii that neither has forgotten. As they reacquaint themselves to one another, they fall in love. But first there remains a stalker angered by her giving away her cherry pie to Gabe, who worries he may be to distracted with the main course to insure the adversary receives his just dessert.

Jani Alden writes a torrid erotic romantic suspense that hooks the audience because fans will care what happens to Reggie (and by whom). Reggie is a wonderful brave protagonist who does her thing; for instance simply becoming a chef took courage, as that vocation alienates her mother the Boston lawyer. Gabe is her perfect partner in and out of bed, as he knows he is willing to risk his life to keep his beloved safe from her unknown stalker. The audience will root for this couple enjoying delicious dining at home.