A Christmas Wish Large Print Edition

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Two accomplished chefs. Three weeks to cater the wedding of the year. One unexpected partnership that changes everything.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Derek Craword-Michelin-starred chef TV personality restaurant empire-took the Winterberry Hollow catering job as a favor to a friend. Three weeks one wedding easy. What he didn't expect was to realize how burned out he'd become. Or to meet a chef who reminds him why he fell in love with cooking in the first place.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meredith Hayes has built a thriving career as a personal chef for Chicago's elite. She's talented successful and has spent twelve years playing it safe-perfecting her craft without ever taking the creative risks that could launch her to the next level.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When they're accidentally hired to co-cater their best friends' Christmas wedding neither expects the partnership that develops.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Through snow-covered farmers' markets and late-night menu planning Derek and Meredith discover something extraordinary: together they're better than either ever was alone. He challenges her to be bold. She reminds him why food matters. They create dishes that feel like magic-the kind of cooking that comes from partnership not performance.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then their dream opportunities arrive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Both opportunities are once-in-a-lifetime. Neither can be done together.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With the wedding days away and their hearts completely entangled Derek and Meredith face an impossible choice: the careers they've worked their entire lives to build or the partnership-and love-that makes them both better than they ever imagined possible.</span></p><p></p>