Stacey Ballis
2) Off the menu
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"As the executive culinary assistant to Chicago celebrity chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenes--and that's just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Patrick's cookbooks, training his sous chefs, picking out the perfect birthday gifts for his ex-mother-in-law, and dealing with the fallout from his romantic escapades, she barely has a personal life, much less time to spend with her combo platter of a mutt, Dumpling....
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Eloise is content with her solitary life as a successful private chef. She has her clients, her corgi, and a recipe for the world's most perfect chocolate cream pie. What more could she need? But when her favorite teacher dies and her long lost trio of high school friends reunites at the wake, Eloise is confronted by how lonely she really is. In honor of Mrs. O'Connor, Eloise, Lynne, and Teresa revamp their senior class assignment and dare each other...
4) Out to lunch
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend dies, leaving her with financial custody of her Star Wars-obsessed husband, Jenna must deal with the widower's hair-brained business schemes while trying to figure out what direction her life is going to take.
Aimee and Jenna built their Chicago catering company together and had so much in common-- well, except their taste in men. When Aimee dies unexpected, she left a shocking request: Jenna now has financial custody of Wayne,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Stacey Ballis cooks up a delicious broth of a novel about a woman whose perfect life falls apart in spectacular fashion leaving her with a house to restore, an antique cookbook (but no cooking talent), and one very unhappy schnauzer. For fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin. To an outside observer, Anneke Stroudt is a mess-her shirts are stained, her fingernails stubby, her language colorful. But, despite her flaws, Anneke's life...
6) Wedding girl
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"You've Got Mail meets Julie & Julia in the new foodie fiction from the author of Recipe for Disaster. Top pastry chef Sophie Bernstein and her sommelier fiance were set to have Chicago's culinary wedding of the year ... until the groom eloped with someone else in a very public debacle, leaving Sophie splashed across the tabloids--fifty grand in debt on her dream wedding and one-hundred percent screwed on her dream life. The icing on the cake was...