"Cooking Up a Christmas Storm is a funny Highland escape that feels like coming home. Especially if you can’t resist a snowy village, a slightly eccentric community and a good‑hearted romance set among the hills."
Jodie Simpson is having a disaster of a week: dumped, jobless and dangerously close to being homeless. When she accidentally opens a job offer meant for her ex, she makes one tiny impulsive choice that sends her all the way to the Scottish Highlands: pretending to be someone she’s not.
What she doesn’t expect is to fall head‑over‑heels for her new life at the cookery school. The locals are warm and quirky and the setting is festive magic. Pavel is the estate's caretaker and he is a quietly brilliant man with only one problem. He thinks Jodie is Gemma.
As a Scot, I loved how authentically Highland the whole thing feels and you can’t help cheering Jodie on as she tries to keep up the act while slowly finding the courage to be herself.
This is a gentle, funny, feel‑good treat with plenty of heart. Perfect for curling up with on a cold night and letting the Highlands work their charm.
Can you find love if you can't be yourself?
Jodie Simpson's life is falling apart.
She's been dumped by her girlfriend, Gemma, lost her job and is about to be kicked out of her flat. When she mistakenly opens a letter addressed to Gemma and finds a job offer to work at the Highland Cookery School, she makes a momentary decision that will change her life forever.
Jodie heads to the Scottish Highlands to begin her new job - as Gemma. But it all starts to work a little too well, and she finds herself loving her new life at the cookery school. As the snow starts to settle and the festive magic cast its spell, she finds herself falling for Pavel, the estate caretaker.
But Jodie cannot keep up her fake identity forever and a storm is brewing.
If she tells the truth, will she lose the new life she has built for herself, and the man who might just be The One?
An uplifting romcom that fans of Sarah Morgan, Heidi Swain and Katie Ginger will adore
Cooking Up a Christmas Storm features in the following genres: Family Drama, Feel-Good Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Family Drama, Humorous Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, Festive Fiction
Cooking Up a Christmas Storm is available in Paperback
Cooking Up a Christmas Storm was written by Amelia Berry and published by Hera
Cooking Up a Christmas Storm has 368 pages
Yes it is part of The Highland Cookery School series
£8.99
