We are Not Losing to Carol: A Romantic Comedy

Carol Whitmore has won the county fair cooking competition three years in a row.Worse, she's lovely.Nina Patel has spent eleven months preparing to beat her.As a food scientist, Nina believes in precision, preparation, and knowing exactly why something works. She has spreadsheets. She has scoring data. She has a binder.Jo Alvarez owns a café and cooks almost entirely by instinct. She measures with her hands, adjusts until things taste right, and considers Nina's kitchen scale mildly offensive.Naturally, the competition assigns them as partners.Now Nina and Jo have to combine two completely incompatible approaches to cooking while dealing with malfunctioning equipment, increasingly inconvenient attraction, and Carol's infuriating habit of being helpful, gracious, and genuinely nice.The more Nina and Jo practice, the harder it becomes to tell where competition ends and flirting begins.But some things remain perfectly clear.They want to win.They want each other.And they are absolutely not losing to Carol.We Are Not Losing to Carol is a warm, fast, funny queer romantic comedy about competitive women, forced partnership, opposites attracting, and discovering that sometimes the best recipe is the one neither of you could have made alone.Book Two in The Best Laid Plans. Each book features a complete standalone romance and can be read independently.