Tess Maitland is the top chef at a five star restaurant in Chicago. She’s also a workaholic that gets very little sleep and hasn’t had a day off in over a month and hasn’t had a vacation in years. It’s no wonder that she went a little crazy and started hallucinating that the vegetables were talking to her. That wasn’t what put her on a month long sabbatical to rest though, nope, it was when she started answering them and talking back. Tess finds herself in Half Moon Hollow where her mentor and his life partner now live. She’s renting a house from Lindy Masden who claims that she needs the money and can’t sell until October 28th when her divorce is final. Lindy neglects to mention that her soon to be ex-husband still resides in the house though or the fact that he now lives in basement because he is a vampire. Neither are willing to leave, Sam because he has nowhere else to go and Tess because she cannot get her money back and going back to Chicago is out of the question since she was sent to rest which she will not do if she is back there. This starts an all-out war between the two of them with practical jokes flying from one to the other because the first one to say uncle has to leave.This is book 2.5 in the Half Moon Hollow series and once again feature our favorite characters from the previous book. The most prominent of which is Jolene that quickly latches onto to Tess once she finds out that she’s a chef. This book took some investigative work to find since it is not sold as a stand-alone. It’s actually sold as a novella inside of a series called The Undead in My Bed by Katie Macalister and is the second story within that book. It’s a short Novella that only took a couple hours at most to read but was a welcome addition to the series. Happy reading! Chef Tess Maitland is forced to take a "sabbatical" from her kitchen when she starts talking to vegetables. With nowhere else to go, Tess rents a house in Half-Moon Hollow to be close to her mentor, Chef Gamling. Not everything goes according to plan when Tess realises she is not the only tenant...It seems Molly Harper nails short stories. This is a very entertaining romance where the lead female does not need saving, actually others need to be saved from her. Tess and Sam's domestic war is very entertaining and there is no pretence of building up a mystery, which is a relief. I enjoyed the descriptions of food a little too much.
Do You like book Undead Sublet (2013)?
Didn't realize this was a Young Adult Vampire story. Stopped listening after an hour or so.
—miley222
Another great story from Molly... I so want to live in Half Moon Hollow. :)
—NatashaG69
I love this series. Seriously hope there is more soon.
—Karla
