Taste the Love

By: Karelia Stetz-Waters, Fay Stetz-Waters

Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2025

"Foodie influencer Kia Jackson is a few sheets of paperwork away from purchasing a plot of urban forest where she'll build her food truck utopia-Taste the Love Land. Kia has dreamt of creating a home for minority-owned food trucks and restaurateurs who have been run out of their brick-and-mortar businesses by gentrification. Just as she is about to secure the deal, corporate fast-food giant Mega Eats sweeps in and outbids her. The only way to stop the conglomerate? Call on a law that says any resident with ancestral history in the neighborhood has first rights to buy the property. Kia can take advantage of the clause...if she can find a legacy family member to marry immediately. The only legacy resident available turns out to be Alice Sullivan, Kia's culinary arts school rival and longtime muse. Sullivan is an eco-chef who loathes the idea of cutting down the green space to make room for a parking-lot full of food trucks-but she hates Mega Eats even more. Begrudgingly, Sullivan agrees to an on-paper marriage to Kia. But as the work to keep up the appearance of a real marriage brings back the delicious chemistry Kia and Sullivan have always had-in and out of the kitchen-the line between fake and real love starts to blur and they must figure out the perfect recipe for happily ever after"--