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Recipe for Persuasion

by Sonali Dev

"Her first love walks onto her reality cooking show — twelve years after she broke both their hearts."

Chef Ashna Raje needs to save her father's restaurant, so she joins a celebrity cooking show — and is paired with football star Rico Silva, the boy she loved and lost at eighteen. Jane Austen's Persuasion, re-spiced with Bollywood-scale family drama and second-chance longing.

Worth knowing

Part of Dev's acclaimed Rajes series reimagining Austen with an Indian-American family. If you liked Persuasion — or just love a second chance.

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