Agent: Kimberley Cameron, Kimberley Cameron & Associates. Readers will cheer for both of them to work past their issues and find their chocolaty ever after. Both Jaime and Dom are highly complex characters, with layers of emotions, thorny pasts, and tangled relationships with family and friends. Jaime used to be a do-gooder, trying to save the world to make up for her privileged upbringing, and while Dom makes Jaime feel cherished and adored, she feels guilty for not giving anything in return.

Although Dom is besotted, he doesn’t dare relax around Jaime he’s a big man with a temper and afraid of turning into an abuser like his father. ABOUT LAURA FLORAND Laura Florand is the award-winning author of the Amour et Chocolat series (The Chocolate Thief, The Chocolate Kiss), where sexy Parisian. Intrigued by Jaime, Dom crafts elaborate confections just for her. She starts going to Dominique Richard’s salon twice a day. Jaime Corey, the younger sister of Chocolate Thief protagonist Cade Corey, has survived a brutal attack and decides to treat herself to some chocolate therapy in Paris. As the days slip by, she’s finding it harder and harder to say adieu.While technically a sequel to The Chocolate Kiss and The Chocolate Thief, the emotionally intense third Amour et Chocolat romance stands well on its own. He’s a gorgeous, sweet, sexy, graphic artist who seems to find Laura adorable for reasons she can’t begin to comprehend. They go together like grits and escargot.

The cultural differences alone are enough to kill any relationship, even if Laura wanted one. So how, in the name of all that is romantic, has she managed to get involved with a dangerously charming Frenchman named S bastien? And only weeks before she’s scheduled to leave Paris for good?Everyone knows that Frenchmen are chain smoking, manic depressive, faithless, male chauvinistic, perfectionist snobs. As far as she’s concerned, chocolate is just as satisfying as true love and a lot less complicated. The last thing she wants is to have her globe trotting ways curtailed by a messy emotional entanglement. Publishers Weekly An adorable chocolate shop and heroine, a sexy pastry chef and a hot romance. Can an insecure American woman find happiness with a sexy Parisian waiter even if she doesn’t like the French?Laura has spent most of her adult life avoiding serious relationships, flitting around the world, and keeping her romantic expectations comfortably low. Sensuous and sumptuous, The Chocolate Kiss leaves its reader with one thought: Mon Dieu, I have got to get myself to Paris RT Book ReviewsThe battle of pastries is an erotic subtext for their love affair, and every bit as decadent.

The chocolate kiss by laura florand