One hot night. Zero expectations. But nothing in the Big Easy stays easy for long...

Bea Davies has a plan: make her cooking history show a hit, land a TV deal, and prove her ex wrong about "wasting her potential." A wild night with a sexy stranger? Not in the plan-but she deserves one last fling before diving into her new life in New Orleans.

Kota Nishikawa likes control, routine, and keeping his personal life strictly separate from work. His one-night stands are carefully selected tourists who disappear by morning. No complications, no connections. Until Bea walks into his office as his new coworker.

Now they're sharing a tiny workspace, competing for the same grant, and fighting an attraction that refuses to fade. He thinks her cooking show is frivolous; she thinks his rigidity is maddening. Yet beneath their hostility simmers the same chemistry that once led them to break every rule.

As Bea's career takes off and Kota's carefully constructed walls begin to crumble, they'll have to decide what's more important: maintaining their comfortable isolation or risking it all for a chance at a love that was never part of the recipe.