{"product_id":"the-chef-queens-of-manhattan","title":"The Chef (Queens of Manhattan)","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictoria Ashford hasn't let anyone into her life in four years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe runs a multimillion-dollar investment firm. She lives alone in a penthouse with a kitchen she's never used. She eats crackers over the sink in the dark and has fired seven private chefs in just a few months — not because the food was bad, but because they tried to talk to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGemma Marin is chef number eight. She's not classically trained, not Upper East Side, and not interested in being invisible. She's a cook with her grandmother's recipes and a stubborn refusal to quit, and she makes food so good it says everything Victoria won't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rules are simple: cook, stock the fridge, leave no trace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Gemma's food keeps leaving traces. In the containers Victoria empties every night. In a seven-word note about lemon. In a white plate from a flea market that neither of them will move. And when shared silence turns into shared dinners, and shared dinners turn into something neither of them planned for, Victoria has to decide what terrifies her more — letting someone in, or going back to eating alone in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chef is a slow-burn high heat sapphic romance about falling in love through food, silence, and the courage it takes to let someone take care of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBook 1 in the Queens of Manhattan series. Complete standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA. These are spicy and can be read in any order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53873071489392,"sku":"N\/A","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53873071522160,"sku":"N\/A","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53873071554928,"sku":"N\/A","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/1334_m.media-amazon.com_images_I_61UtG7ELquL._SY522__1.jpg?v=1780736077","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/the-chef-queens-of-manhattan","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}