Rise & Grind

Twenty-two-year-old culinary dropout Sloane Delacroix has raw talent, zero discipline, and a mouth that gets her in trouble. When she lands an apprenticeship under Margaux Fontaine-Portland's most exacting, icy, and brilliant pastry chef-Sloane expects a grueling kitchen. She doesn't expect the intense, undeniable heat that flares between them every time Margaux corrects her technique.

Margaux hasn't let anyone into her kitchen-or her bed-in eight years. She has built her life around control...