Love is the best of delicacies!
Chocolate vs pastries.
Castelli vs Palazzo.
Lucas vs Catalina.
Against? More like face to face, because Catalina's boutique she inherited from her grand-father is less than 10 yards from the shop of the family enemies: the Castelli's.
The war between them has lasted for decades in this quaint Corsica village of Sartène. Catalina's arrival rings like a provocation towards Lucas Castelli's chocolaterie. But Cat has lived through worse than this little competition from an openly hostile and rude neighbor and there is no way she won't open her own bakery.
This is her life's second chance. She has to make it happen.
If Lucas wants the war, he will get it… it will be the buds war !
Feel good
Humour
Corse
Condition féminine
Histoires de famille
Gourmandise
Comédie romantique
Release: Mach 2019
Foreign and paperbacks publishers' interest:
Rights sold in Germany
Law teacher in a prestigious school in Lyon, Lucie Castel escapes reality by writing. As dynamic as she is skilled, she expresses her creativity through many artistic projects she likes to handle all at the same time. Not that easy is her first novel.
Catalina Palazzo / Gal Gadot
Nationally acclaimed baker, she went through hell to try to get pregnant with her ex-fiancé. Partners to open a shop in Brittany, he leaves her for her best friend, who gets pregnant.
At the beginning of the book, she is freshly back in her native Corsica for her grand-father's funerals. This is thanks to him she inherits the shop. As she has nothing to loose, she decides to open her bakery, mixing Corsica and Brittany influences. Then, she rivals her neighbor and star chocolate-maker, Lucas Castelli.
Catalina has a strong temper and hides deep wounds, but is gifted to gain people's support. Has a cat as kind as the Devil itself.
Lucas CASTELLI / Rupert Everett young
Star chocolate-maker, he is the headlines of magazines. With his success, he supports all of his family, which pressures him a lot. He inherited his hatred for the Palazzo's from his parents and grand-parents. However, he is smart enough to go beyond this war to confront Catalina on their mutual culinary fields
He is a bad tempered man who hides under is brutal authority towards his team a real perfectionist kindness.
Marc-Antoine
Catalina's cousin, he is really bad looking but shows a true gift for management. He works with Catalina in her shop.
Helena PALAZZO / Judi Dench
Catalina's grand-mother, one of the most vindicative opponent to the Castelli family, her temper couldn't be more from Corsica than it is. She will nevertheless offer her total support to her grand-daughter.
Blanche CASTELLI / Grace Kelly old
Lucas's mother, sworn enemy of Elena Palazzo, is a rigid woman, elitist and deeply attached to her worthy ancestry, unlike the Palazzo's who are considered as upstarts.
She is the one to fuel the hatred between her son and Catalina.
Dominique CASTELLI HILL / Vin Diesel
Lucas'brother, "the one who failed", helps Catalina as soon as he can and doesn't see the point to the ancestral war between the two families.
He is a part of a secondary plot, a love story with Charlotte Valentini, young woman broken by a disastrous marriage.
The quaint Corsica's village of Sartene and its Mediterranean charms.
Two shops : an ultra modern and trendy chocolaterie designed with the greatest of care and its neighbor, a small bakery which pastries are more than delicious!
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