One scathing review was all it took to destroy Ava Moreno's rising culinary empire and turn me into the most hated food critic in New York. Now I'm jobless, blacklisted, and hiding from reporters in my brother's cramped Queens apartment when the chef whose career I ruined sends me a cryptic 2 AM proposition. She wants to meet, alone, and against every instinct screaming at me to run, I show up—only to be offered the last thing I ever expected: a job in her kitchen. Working alongside the woman I betrayed means facing her rage, her staff's hostility, and the white-hot tension simmering between us that has nothing to do with cooking. But as I learn what really happened the night I wrote that review, I realize Ava Moreno's revenge might be far more complicated than I imagined.