Lila Hart has built her entire career on a lie — stolen dishes, perfect plating, and an audience that follows her for her outfits, not her food. When an invitation arrives to an exclusive culinary competition on a remote island, she accepts because she's three months behind on rent and completely out of options.

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She doesn't know the host. She doesn't know the island. She doesn't know that ten chefs were invited and only one was ever meant to survive.

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Blaze Turner is everything the culinary world worships. Brilliant, brutal, and untouchable. But Blaze Turner is a performance. Behind it lives Daniel, who is quieter and more dangerous. A man who has been watching Lila Hart long before she ever heard his name.

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He came looking for revenge. He found something he wasn't prepared for.

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A woman the world had looked past. A woman worth burning everything down for.

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As competitors disappear one by one and Lila begins to understand the shape of what is happening around her, the danger, the devotion, and the terrible, intoxicating truth that someone has chosen her unconditionally for the first time in her life, she picks up the knife anyway.

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Ten chefs were invited. Only one will survive. She just didn't know he'd already chosen her.