Sugar and Salt

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She came home with her knives. He opened three doors from her father's parlour. Then the recipe book vanished. THE MERROW BAY SISTERS · BOOK THREE Delia Hartley invented the most talked-about dessert in Paris, and on the night it won a prize her chef collected it and told her to stay in the kitchen. So she walked out, and came home to Merrow Bay for Christmas with her knife roll and a secret, to find that somebody has opened a pâtisserie three doors along from her late father's ice-cream parlour. Jules Garnier is not, whatever the town has decided, French. He is a baker's son from Lewisham with flour to the elbows, a laugh you can hear from the harbour and a very clean dishwasher, and on his opening day his window holds a Christmas tart that tastes exactly like her father's. The night before, her father's recipe book disappeared from a locked workroom. The book goes back to 1968. It holds her granny's vanilla, her dad's handwriting and a pencil outline of her own hand at eight years old. To get it back, Delia will have to work beside the one man in town she has sworn to hate. She will have to meet a formidable old baker, learn the story of a recipe swapped every Christmas Eve for twenty-eight years, and decide, before the year runs out, where the salt tastes right. • A warm, funny contemporary romance with a little mystery, set in a Northumberland seaside town at Christmas. • Sensual, not explicit. Rival bakers, a found family, and a heroine who says the true thing first. • Book three of the Merrow Bay Sisters; reads on its own.