Spice & Soul: Episode One

By Honey Dover

Tristan Bell is a driven, ambitious chef. When a new position opens up at Toulouse, the French restaurant where he works, he's not going to let anything hold him back from getting the promotion - not even if Toulouse's head chef doesn't think Tristan has what it takes.

Tristan is sure he has neither the time nor the energy to waste on a new relationship. But then he meets Sunil Chand. Can handsome, artistic Sunil change Tristan's plans?

Spice & Soul: Episode One is novella length (approx. 11,500 words) and the first installment in this new series about Tristan and Sunil, two chefs dealing with love and business. Each episode also includes a real, tested recipe! Subsequent episodes will be released on a bi-weekly basis. There will be a total of four parts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Honey Dover
• Release date: Nov 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310809453

Honey Dover

Honey Dover lives in Brooklyn, where the big city provides her with plenty of erotic experiences. She loves to work these steamy situations into stories to share with others. She writes f/f, m/m, m/f and menage, and her stories range from historical to contemporary to paranormal. Whatever you're into, you'll probably find it in one of Honey's stories.Contact Honey at honeybdover (at) gmail.com. She would love to hear from readers, or get ideas for new stories! She also has a mailing list, Honey Dover at Google Groups. You'll never receive spam, but only updates on Honey's newest stories, sales, and freebies!IMPORTANT NOTE TO READERS: Many erotica and erotic romance books are now "adult filtered" and will not appear if you search for them on the main page of ebook stores. You can always find all of Honey's books here on her author page. Please consider leaving a review, if you enjoyed a story. Thanks for supporting indie authors!

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Spice & Soul

Honey Dover

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Copyright 2014 Honey Dover

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Spice & Soul: Contents

Episode One

Recipe One: Bhajia

About the Author

Other Books by Honey Dover

Books by Other Authors That You Might Enjoy

Copyright Information

Spice & Soul: Episode One

Today was already one of the worst days of Tristan Bell’s career and it was barely five o’clock. At least he could be thankful that Toulouse, a restaurant, hadn’t actually closed. On the other hand, if it had closed it would have greatly reduced the amount of stress in Tristan’s life. That was one of the good things about not yet being head chef: all Tristan had to do was cook the food in front of him. No customers – and therefore no food – meant no worries. Any problems on a larger scale (such as, just for example, a meat delivery that was five hours overdue on the same day that the main freezer broke down) weren’t the responsibility of lowly line cooks like him. He could leave all of that in the stocky hands of Dominic Chapelle, current head chef here.

Chapelle was in a foul mood, and so was reenforcing his authority by making the atmosphere in Toulouse’s kitchen even worse than it would have been otherwise. It was hard to tell, since he regularly threw screaming rage tantrums even on days when his four-star restaurant wasn’t in danger of shutting its doors right before the Friday dinner rush, but Tristan had worked with the man for long enough to detect such subtle shifts in his mood. Tristan just kept his head down and focused on prepping his mise – the collection of chopped vegetables, herbs, and sauces he’d be using throughout his shift – and tried to avoid being the lucky winner who drew Chapelle’s wrath. The small room was a loud, hot scene of chaos: people dashing back and forth, shouts, dropped bowls and knives, cuts of meat that should have been allowed to slowly defrost stuffed into the microwave, and various other crimes being committed against French haute cuisine.

What the fuck is this? Right on cue, Chapelle exploded, his scratchy baritone voice momentarily drowning out the radio that was propped precariously above the sink playing reggaeton.

Tristan knew that letting his curiosity show would just draw Chapelle’s attention down on him, but he couldn’t resist glancing over discreetly. One of the waiters, a short white girl named Becca, stared uncertainly back at Chapelle, clearly unsure if his question had been rhetorical or not. Chopped onions? she offered finally.

Exactly! Chapelle shouted. "Didn’t I tell you to dice them?"

Becca looked down at the pile of white onions on the cutting board in front of her, her confusion obvious. Isn’t that the same thing?

Chapelle swore and yanked the knife from her hand, then shouldered her aside. Becca stumbled back a few steps and almost collided with the pot of beef stock Olivia, the sauce chef and Chapelle’s second in command, was in the middle of taking off the stove. Watch it! Olivia snapped, barely managing to keep the boiling liquid from spilling onto Becca.

Right! Sorry. Becca