We are happy to share that Jean Meltzer’s KISSING KOSHER has received rave reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly!
Kirkus Reviews calls KISSING KOSHER, “An unflinchingly honest romance.”
Read the full review here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jean-meltzer/kissing-kosher/
And Publishers Weekly has said, “A winning recipe for contemporary romance grounded in real-world issues.”
To read the full review, click here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780778334408
About the book:
From the author of THE MATZAH BALL and MR. PERFECT ON PAPER comes this hilarious and emotional rivals-to-lovers romance.
Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love…
Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants—woefully, for unsexy reasons. Chronic pelvic pain has forced her to sideline her photography dreams and her love life. It’s all she can do to manage her family’s kosher bakery, Best Babka in Brooklyn, without collapsing.
She needs hired help.
And distractingly handsome Ethan Lippmann seems the perfect fit.
Except Ethan isn’t there to work—he’s undercover, at the behest of his ironfisted grandfather. Though Lippmann’s is a household name when it comes to mass-produced kosher baked goods, they don’t have the charm of Avital’s bakery. Or her grandfather’s world-famous pumpkin spice babka recipe.
As they bake side by side, Ethan soon finds himself more interested in Avital than in stealing family secrets, especially as he helps her find the chronic pain relief—and pleasure—she’s been missing.
But perfecting the recipe for romance calls for leaving out the lies…even if coming clean means risking everything.
About the author:
Jean Meltzer studied dramatic writing at NYU Tisch and has earned numerous awards for her work in television, including a daytime Emmy. She spent five years in rabbinical school before her chronic illness forced her to withdraw, and her father told her she should write a book—just not a Jewish one because no one reads those. Kissing Kosher is her third novel.
Jean is co-represented by Carolyn Forde and Marilyn Biderman.
Congratulations!