In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Kissing Kosher with author Jean Meltzer, in conversation with Lucy Keating.

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Kissing Kosher

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.

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.

Moderator Lucy Keating is the author of three young adult romance novels: Dreamology, Literally, and Ride With Me. She's been writing and editing romance for well over a decade, since getting her start at teen hitmaker Alloy Entertainment, and her work has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband, baby boy, and disgruntled senior dog. She is a graduate of Williams College.

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