Two Hearts, One Recipe

Seventeen-year-old Eli Johnson never planned to start over in France.After losing his mother, he is sent to live with the grandfather he barely knows in a small French town, carrying grief, guilt, and memories he would rather leave behind. He has also stopped doing the one thing that once connected him to his mother: cooking.Then a runaway dog leads him straight into Chez Moreau-and to Camille.Camille Moreau is sharp, stubborn, and determined to save her family's struggling restaurant. But with time running out and a high-stakes cooking tournament offering one last chance to keep the doors open, she must learn to trust her own instincts after spending too long believing someone else always knew better.Eli never intended to become part of her fight. Camille never expected to need him.But somewhere between late-night practices, burned dishes, French lessons, old family secrets, and a friendship neither of them is ready to call something more, they begin to discover that helping someone doesn't mean fixing them-and that the people we love can leave pieces of themselves behind in unexpected ways.Because sometimes the most important recipe isn't the one you follow.It's the one you make your own.Two Hearts, One Recipe is a heartfelt YA coming-of-age romance about first love, grief, family, food, and finding the courage to start with what's there.