How Six Chefs Got It On

By S. Ford Brown

He’s never met anyone like her...
At 21 years old, Tonya Summers is a skater girl with the ESPN X-games as well as a college student, volunteer, and the sole provider for her family who lost their jobs in the economic downturn. A handsome, world-renowned TV chef is surely not interested in someone like her.

She’s never even learned to cook...
When Alex Stanley, who also volunteers at the Elysian Fields Soup Kitchen, meets Tonya, he is instantly captivated and presents her with an opportunity she can’t refuse—a chance at winning a half million dollars on the reality TV cooking show Happy Endings. Enough money to get her family back on her feet and herself a college education.

The challenges mount...
The producers want more than just bacon cupcakes—one of several recipes our celebrity chefs share with you at the end of the story. They are also looking for personal drama and sexual tension and are out to make sure it happens.

Can there be a happy ending for Tonya and Alex?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Jun 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781613338520

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How Six Chefs Got It On

Copyright  2015 by S. Ford Brown

ISBN: 978-1-61333-852-0

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How Six Chefs Got It On

Dedication

For everyone who believes in fairy tales and loves sweet things and happy endings.

How Six Chefs Got It On

By

S. Ford Brown

A Beyond Fairy Tales

Adaptation of Grimms’ How Six Men Got on in the World

Smashwords Edition

They were always hungry, but they ate very well. – Ernest Hemingway, Garden of Eden

Episode One

Once upon a time….

My sister drove me to the television station, the silliest grin on her face. She thought what I planned to do was crazy, and a part of me agreed. A perpetual loner, a skater girl who never watched TV, taking part in a celebrity cooking show?

In the world of cupcakes, the foodie TV market had pretty much dried up, but a video of Nicodemus, the old man who sits outside the studio telling stories, went viral. He had been licking creamy pink frosting from a cupcake, saying, I love happy endings.

The producers had exploited the idea for a cooking show they’d named Happy Endings. They indulged Nicodemus, his passion for telling stories, and his sweet tooth because it helped ratings. The mysterious old man had become more than a YouTube sensation; he’d grown into a legend at the studio. People loved the old guy who sat outside the studio telling stories, greeting everyone.

He stood no taller than four feet and resembled Merlin with the wild beard he sported. Nicodemus tasted every confection produced on the show because the studio deemed him the official taste tester. The audience ate it up.

Alex Stanley had thrown in the idea to mix food porn with sexiness. The combination had worked, and the show had been a huge success—this year starting its seventh season.

I learned all of this from my sister, who giggled the entire way to the studio, carrying on about how, of all the people they could have selected to be on the show, they’d chosen me. And not only as a contestant, but as Alex Stanley’s partner.

You don’t even cook! she jeered.

Don’t remind me, I grumbled, shaking my head.

I hated television, and I hated reality TV even more, but I hated cooking most of all. I couldn’t imagine how I had been talked into doing this. I loved to do one thing and just one thing—skating. My motto—Wake and Skate.

Tonya. My sister smirked as we pulled up outside the Orlando studio. Are you sure about this? She stared at me, her foot on the brake, but the car still in drive, indicating I had time to get out of this with my dignity intact. Going on television in front of all those cameras terrified me. What if I froze like a deer in headlights? But, I’d promised Alex Stanley I would do this.

Hmmm, Alex Stanley., I creamed every time I thought of him, without a doubt the yummiest guy I’d ever met, a nerd in a jock’s body like me. When he’d asked me to do him a favor and be his partner on the show, how could I say no?

I’ll be fine. I cringed and tugged at the collar of the white chef’s jacket. The chef’s hat lay crumpled in my lap from wringing it the entire ride here.

Break a leg, then. Ana gave me a thumbs-up then hugged me for a split second. We were never into girly sisterly crap.

I got out of the car and walked inside the studio, passing Nicodemus as I entered. His long beard twisting and turning in every direction, his green woolen pants and red woolen shirt made him appear as a garden gnome.

Good morning, young lady. He gave a warm smile.

Hi, Nicodemus. I beamed, feeling as if I’d known him for a lifetime even though we’d never met before. His face was so familiar.

"It’s up to you how far you’ll go. If you don’t take