She makes potatoes for judges. He makes them for people. Now the whole town is taking bets on which one of them will crack first.
Odette Pascal did not leave a respectable career, sink her life savings into a food truck, and spend years mastering the art of the potato just to be outsold by a man who puts jarred cheese sauce on fries and calls it napalm.
Unfortunately, Penn Calder is very good at what he does.
His battered food truck, Fry Hard, has a line around the block. His customers adore him. His tip jar has jokes. And after the Bellflower Bay Summer Festival parks him ten feet from Odette’s elegant Gilded Tuber, he seems determined to make her lose her temper one stolen salt shaker at a time.
Then the festival announces the Golden Spud competition.
Ten days. Ten culinary challenges. Ten thousand dollars to the winner.
Odette needs that money to save her business. Penn needs it for reasons he refuses to talk about. And when their increasingly ridiculous feud goes viral, one bad decision in front of half the town turns a potato competition into something much more dangerous.
The loser has to work for the winner.
For one month.
It should be simple. Odette has technique. Penn has the crowds. She has culinary tweezers. He has a squeeze bottle and absolutely no respect for boundaries.
But somewhere between stolen kitchen equipment, midnight cooking, a storm that changes the rules, and a rivalry neither of them seems quite as eager to end as they should be, winning starts to look a lot more complicated.
Because the only thing hotter than the fryers on Rival'''s Row is the possibility that Odette and Penn have been fighting the wrong battle all along.
HOT POTATO is a sweet, laugh-out-loud enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring rival food trucks, a town with no respect for privacy, one spectacularly ill-advised bet, secret midnight kisses, and enough potatoes to constitute a food group.
Genre: Romance
Odette Pascal did not leave a respectable career, sink her life savings into a food truck, and spend years mastering the art of the potato just to be outsold by a man who puts jarred cheese sauce on fries and calls it napalm.
Unfortunately, Penn Calder is very good at what he does.
His battered food truck, Fry Hard, has a line around the block. His customers adore him. His tip jar has jokes. And after the Bellflower Bay Summer Festival parks him ten feet from Odette’s elegant Gilded Tuber, he seems determined to make her lose her temper one stolen salt shaker at a time.
Then the festival announces the Golden Spud competition.
Ten days. Ten culinary challenges. Ten thousand dollars to the winner.
Odette needs that money to save her business. Penn needs it for reasons he refuses to talk about. And when their increasingly ridiculous feud goes viral, one bad decision in front of half the town turns a potato competition into something much more dangerous.
The loser has to work for the winner.
For one month.
It should be simple. Odette has technique. Penn has the crowds. She has culinary tweezers. He has a squeeze bottle and absolutely no respect for boundaries.
But somewhere between stolen kitchen equipment, midnight cooking, a storm that changes the rules, and a rivalry neither of them seems quite as eager to end as they should be, winning starts to look a lot more complicated.
Because the only thing hotter than the fryers on Rival'''s Row is the possibility that Odette and Penn have been fighting the wrong battle all along.
HOT POTATO is a sweet, laugh-out-loud enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring rival food trucks, a town with no respect for privacy, one spectacularly ill-advised bet, secret midnight kisses, and enough potatoes to constitute a food group.
Genre: Romance