Spoiler alert—this is a "cookbook" for a fun read full of conflicts, quirky characters, clever problem-solving, kindly friends and nasty villains to flavor the mix. Here's just a few of the ingredients:

Throw five famous authors, who can't boil water, into a high-stakes cooking contest and watch what happens. Winning's as good as a Culinary Olympics gold medal and Pulitzer Prize all rolled into one!

Enter Faith Jordan (a former best-seller author) whose life is strangely turned upside down in the space of 48 hours. Goaded into making a life-changing decision, she weighs all the negatives of coming out of hiding and competing in this contest. She's tempted. She wants to be competitor number six.

Minor detail: seems all the contestants have been chosen. No room for Faith and her talents.

Get past those monumental hurdles and Faith will have to compete against a former rival now soaring in the book world stratosphere.

Buy Cooking up a Story at your favorite online store to find out what happens in a tale cooked up with intriguing layers of humor, romance, even suspense.