The Single Dad's Family Recipe

The Single Dad's Family Recipe
Rachael Johns

Recipe for disaster? Or second chance?Take one single dad working night and day to open his hot new restaurant. Mix in his irresistible new employee – a woman with a secret, looking for a fresh start. Simmer until a kiss leads to a clandestine affair that plunges Lachlan McKinnel and Eliza Coleman from the frying pan right into the fire!

Recipe for disaster? Or second chance?

Take one single dad working night and day to open his hot new restaurant. Mix in his irresistible new hire—a woman with a secret looking for a fresh start. Simmer until a kiss leads to a clandestine affair that plunges Lachlan McKinnel and Eliza Coleman from the frying pan right into the fire!

RACHAEL JOHNS is an English teacher by trade, a mum 24/7, a chronic arachnophobe and a writer the rest of the time. She rarely sleeps and never irons. A lover of romance and women’s fiction, Rachael loves nothing more than sitting in bed with her laptop and electric blanket and imagining her own stories. Rachael has finaled in a num­ber of competitions, including the Australian Romance Readers Awards—Jilted, her first rural romance, won Favourite Contemporary Romance in 2012. She was voted in the top ten of Booktopia’s Australia’s Favourite Author poll in 2013. Rachael lives in the West Australian hills with her hyperactive husband, three mostly gorgeous heroes in training, two fat cats, a cantankerous bird and a very badly behaved dog. Rachael loves to hear from readers and can be contacted via her website, www.rachaeljohns.com (http://www.rachaeljohns.com). She is also on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/RachaelJohnsRomance) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/RachaelJohns).

Also available by Rachael Johns

A Dog and a Diamond

Pregnant by Mr. Wrong

The Art of Keeping Secrets

Jilted

The Kissing Season

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The Single Dad’s Family Recipe

Rachael Johns

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ISBN: 978-1-474-07730-9

THE SINGLE DAD'S FAMILY RECIPE

© 2018 Rachael Johns

Published in Great Britain 2018

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Contents

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About the Author (#ua1198fe0-dd23-5117-bad5-15dee085595f)

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