Trying to find a way to help with the family’s scholarship fund, September “Berry” Calendar joins a cooking competition. Although she’s had no formal training as a chef, everyone agrees she’s the best cook around Cauldron Valley, so she hopes she won’t go down in a pile of burning ash. When a handsome man flirts with her on her first night at the competition, she knows he’ll flirt with any woman, because she is no prize. Jack Larson agrees to judge a cooking competition that his mother had been very involved with before her death. He’s dreading having to go and be part of it, but on the first night there, he sees a woman who makes his heart beat faster. Her smile makes him feel like he could catch the stars in one hand, and he wants to give them all to her. When the competition is over, he asks her to help him with a party he’s having—one that he makes up on the spot to be able to see her after they return home to Montana. Will Jack be able to use the extra time to convince Berry he’s more than just a playboy? Or will she spend the rest of her life mired in self-doubt?

This unique and meticulously edited collection includes: STEPSONS OF FRANCE:_x000D_ Ten little Legionaries_x000D_ À la Ninon de L'Enclos_x000D_ An Officer and—a Liar_x000D_ The Dead Hand_x000D_ The Gift_x000D_ The Deserter_x000D_ Five Minutes_x000D_ "Here are Ladies"_x000D_ The MacSnorrt_x000D_ "Belzébuth"_x000D_ The Quest_x000D_ "Vengeance is Mine..."_x000D_ Sermons in Stones_x000D_ Moonshine_x000D_ The Coward of the Legion_x000D_ Mahdev Rao_x000D_ The Merry Liars_x000D_ GOOD GESTES:_x000D_ What's in a Name_x000D_ A Gentleman of Colour_x000D_ David and His Incredible Jonathan_x000D_ The McSnorrt Reminiscent_x000D_ Mad Murphy's Miracle_x000D_ Buried Treasure_x000D_ If Wishes were Horses_x000D_ The Devil and Digby Geste_x000D_ The Mule_x000D_ Low Finance_x000D_ Presentiments_x000D_ Dreams Come True_x000D_ FLAWED BLADES: Tales from the Foreign Legion_x000D_ No. 187017_x000D_ Bombs_x000D_ Mastic--and Drastic_x000D_ The Death Post_x000D_ E Tenebris_x000D_ Nemesis_x000D_ The Hunting of Henri_x000D_ PORT O' MISSING MEN: Strange Tales of the Stranger Regiment_x000D_ The Return of Odo Klemens_x000D_ The Betrayal of Odo Klemens_x000D_ The Life of Odo Klemens_x000D_ Moon-rise_x000D_ Moon-shadows_x000D_ Moon-set_x000D_ Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticized, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate, which has led to unproven suggestions that Wren himself served with the legion.