With time on her hands Tonya Martin has the chance to reach for her own long-cherished dream: opening a restaurant on her friend's beautiful Garden District estate. Exploring local cuisine by taking an apprentice role at famed restaurant Chez Toussaints, Tonya finds the head chef's mix of Creole, Cajun, and African ancestry deeply attractive, and he clearly wants their friendship to become much more. Drawn to him yet hesitant given their previous unhappy marriages, Tonya wonders if Gage be just the ingredient she needs to make this delicious new life complete?