title: In Your Dreams
author: Sarah Adams
publisher: Dell
publication date: December 30, 2025
pages: 368
peppers: 3 (on this scale)
warnings:
- smoking
- heart attack (mention) and high blood pressure
- panic attack (brief, on page)
- grief
summary: On the night of Madison's just-barely-made-it graduation from culinary school and with no jobs on the horizon, she accidentally calls the wrong number in her contacts and ends up talking with her brother's long-time best friend, who happens to be opening a restaurant on his farm in her hometown. He offers her the chef position.
tropes:
- pining
- brother's best friend
- sparring-partners-to-lovers
- cooking up something special
- small town
what I liked:
- callbacks to Adams' other novels
- humor
- food prep
- small town antics
- sibling antics/sibling love
- sibling rivalry
what I didn’t like:
- n/a
overall rating: 5 (of 5 stars)
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