Taste of Port Andrea Series by Lily Seabrooke

To spark interest in Avery’s restaurant, and to revitalize Holly’s image, a fake relationship is the answer to both their problems.And the start of a pressing new problem: falling in love.Avery Lindt finally opened her dream restaurant—and there’s no customers. She’s staying optimistic, though: she’s confident she can fake it till she makes it, roll with the punches, and find a way to save her luxury restaurant, Paramour... moreTo spark interest in Avery’s restaurant, and to revitalize Holly’s image, a fake relationship is the answer to both their problems.And the start of a pressing new problem: falling in love.Avery Lindt finally opened her dream restaurant—and there’s no customers. She’s staying optimistic, though: she’s confident she can fake it till she makes it, roll with the punches, and find a way to save her luxury restaurant, Paramour.But it gets harder when she gets restaurant mogul and star chef Mike Wallace angry, and finds herself on the other end of a campaign to shut down Paramour.Celebrity chef Holly Mason’s show is in trouble: people are bored with her routine of helping struggling restaurants. Worse, her ex-boyfriend Mike Wallace is making backdoor deals trying to steal the starring role.Luckily, Holly’s agent Tay has a solution: ditch her show plans for the season, throw their lot in with luxury restaurant Paramour against Mike Wallace’s racketeering operation of a restaurant partnership. The cherry on top? A fake relationship between Holly and Avery to stir up drama.It would already be a mess if Holly and Avery weren’t already struggling to hold back their attraction for one another. Despite their promise not to date, the lines between acting and reality get awfully blurry sometimes.Fake It is an 80,000-word fake-dating celebrity romance between a disillusioned TV cooking star and a bright-eyed restaurant owner who’s sure she can manifest a solution to her hard times if she believes hard enough. Features an agent named Tay who calls their brilliant ideas “inspir-Tay-tion,” plenty of descriptions of food that made me hungry while I wrote the book, and a cute bisexual trans girl who gets to fall in love. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes that get a little bit kinky, a gross man who won’t stop calling his ex-girlfriend babe, and sapphics getting in the way of their own feelings, like they always do. less

Remington Bennett starts her new life in a new city with a key resolution: do not fall for a woman. She doesn't even get out of the subway before she falls for one—literally.Dana Gallagher's life is storybook-perfect, but she's never connected with anything deeply. But when the girl who saved her from an accident turns out to be her new apprentice at the bakery for the summer, sparks fly hard enough she might just be willing to risk her heart after all... moreRemington Bennett starts her new life in a new city with a key resolution: do not fall for a woman. She doesn't even get out of the subway before she falls for one—literally.Dana Gallagher's life is storybook-perfect, but she's never connected with anything deeply. But when the girl who saved her from an accident turns out to be her new apprentice at the bakery for the summer, sparks fly hard enough she might just be willing to risk her heart after all.But with Remi trying her damnedest to act straight for fear of the powerful family she left behind, can they find their way to bind together, or are they destined to crumble?One Step at a Time is a 90,000-word summertime bakery romance in the Taste of Port Andrea collection, an unordered collection of culinary romances set in the fictional city of Port Andrea. Features a bisexual lead who somehow thinks being bisexual means she can decide to only be attracted to men, a pansexual lead with a pansexual sister, Avery Lindt from Fake It trying her best to make Remi see reason, "there's more than one bed but they find excuses to have to share a bed anyway," and more mutual pining than you can shake a baguette at. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes, an overbearing mother, Emmanuel telling bad jokes, and a lot of food descriptions, because apparently I write books to make myself hungry. less

Parker Ferris needed a roommate, but for the crabby ball of snark she is, maybe upbeat Instagram lifestyle influencer Cassie Peterson wasn’t the best choice.Not like she had a choice: with her business rival Gary Founders crushing her coffee supply business, and her family still needing money, she’s eager to save rent. But it’s only delaying the inevitable... moreParker Ferris needed a roommate, but for the crabby ball of snark she is, maybe upbeat Instagram lifestyle influencer Cassie Peterson wasn’t the best choice.Not like she had a choice: with her business rival Gary Founders crushing her coffee supply business, and her family still needing money, she’s eager to save rent. But it’s only delaying the inevitable.When a contentious roommate agreement becomes an alliance to keep Parker’s business alive, the attraction between them is nothing but a spark to Parker, a bit of fun to pass the nights with. Cassie, on the other hand, doesn’t know how to feel anything in half measures when it comes to the girl she’s crushed on for months—which is even more of a problem when her fans don’t know she’s gay.Stopping Gary Founders’ company seems like an impossible task. But confronting feelings both of them have spent a lifetime hiding from might be even more of a challenge.Night & Day is a 100,000-word opposites-attract roommate romance in the Taste of Port Andrea collection, an unordered collection of culinary romances set in the fictional city of Port Andrea. Features a minor celebrity who’s afraid of her followers finding out she’s actually a raging lesbian, a thoroughly hateable antagonist who gets what’s coming to him, a business owner who only really started a business to avoid getting out of bed, and a lot of coffee. Content warnings for open-door sex scenes, crushing debt and ugly family dynamics, threats of outing, Gary’s whole existence as a horrible human being but especially his ugly ties, and poor Parker getting dragged out of bed in the mornings to do warrior pose for half a million fans, when she generally doesn’t want to do anything but eat ice cream in bed alone. less

All Misha’s ever wanted is to get rid of Zoe—so what happens when the world pushes them onto the same side?The pivotal moment in Misha’s career is here and once again, it’s Zoe Archer who’s in her way.After taking over luxury restaurant Rose Bloom while the owner is abroad, Misha’s skill running a restaurant is tested when Port Andrea’s most infamous cutthroat restauranteur Persephone Jacobs opens a competing restaurant directly across from her and declares war on Rose Bloom... moreAll Misha’s ever wanted is to get rid of Zoe—so what happens when the world pushes them onto the same side?The pivotal moment in Misha’s career is here and once again, it’s Zoe Archer who’s in her way.After taking over luxury restaurant Rose Bloom while the owner is abroad, Misha’s skill running a restaurant is tested when Port Andrea’s most infamous cutthroat restauranteur Persephone Jacobs opens a competing restaurant directly across from her and declares war on Rose Bloom.And worse? The competition is headed by her long-time rival, Zoe Archer.Zoe is willing to do whatever it takes to get Misha out of Port Andrea—even working with the feared and dreaded Dragon Queen, Persephone Jacobs. But when Jacobs’s methods get too underhanded, Zoe’s forced to face the unthinkable:Maybe she needs to work with the person she hates the most.Every Rose is a 100,000-word enemies-to-lovers romance in the Taste of Port Andrea collection, an unordered collection of culinary romances set in the fictional city of Port Andrea. Features gratuitous boldfaced enemies-to-lovers dynamics, restaurant subterfuge, teaming up with your worst enemy to fight a bigger enemy, and Flora gently pointing out the two are actually in love and just bad at realizing it. Content warnings for on-page sex, mentions of an abusive and grooming past relationship, Persephone Jacobs taking great joy in being evil, Flora being charmingly hapless, sex in a restaurant kitchen, and an eleven-inch height difference that the taller one lords over the shorter one a lot. less