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Tastes Like Shakkar

Pages
352
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

Bobbi Kaur plans weddings for her family's event business, and she wants to take it over one day. Her best friend Kareena Mann is marrying Prem Verma, and Bobbi is set on making the celebration one to remember. One misstep, on this wedding or any other on her schedule, would hand her uncle another reason to withhold her promotion.

Two things get in her way. Benjamin "Bunty" Padda, a chef and Prem's best friend, is meant to help with the menu, and Bobbi finds him egotistical and irritatingly attractive. Then someone starts leaving threatening notes and cancelling cake orders, so the wedding is under threat from a saboteur.

Bunty has his own load to carry. He needs a location for his next restaurant, and he mediates between his brother and his father, the celebrated Naan King. He agrees to the menu job for Prem's sake, and partly because it keeps him close to Bobbi. With the notes piling up, the two call a truce and have to deal with the pull between them.

The plan runs through masquerade fundraisers and a joint bachelor-bachelorette trip to Vegas, with the wedding set for Messina Vineyards on a tight deadline. The meddling aunties return, good at digging up information. This is a comic romance with a mystery thread, a loose retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and a follow-up to Dating Dr. Dil.