A RECIPE FOR RUINUpdated at Dec 4, 2025, 09:13
Amber Smith just needed to live. Tall, a gentle jawline, lashes long enough to touch her cheeks when she blinks, glowing natural skin kissed by sunlight, and a beauty impossible not to look twice at
A bright college freshman, who has an ill mom and bills eating up her college tuition money, she grabbed the first opening she encountered, which is being the cook in a family of a billionaire, in their perfect mansion, which is ice-cold.
Nothing, though, in the case of Richard Cooper and his family was ideal.
Richard had the kind of attraction that would make anyone arrange their posture without noticing. Y’all, broad shoulders with a well-defined jawline, face fixed so calmly, and dreamy eyes.
His wife, Caroline, despised her beauty.
His daughter, Edith, did not like her gentleness.
And the maids did not like her talent.
Richard ought to have despised her as well...
Instead, he watched her.
He observed her cooking, breathing, smiling, and observed her till he could no longer do it.
Late one night when he kissed her in the kitchen like a man who had waited years for this moment, gentle but hungry, careful but unable to pull away. He had no idea that someone was lurking in the shadows.
The family became hostile towards her.
Then there was the gas explosion, the one that was not supposed to be survived by anybody.
Amber barely did.
She is scarred and beaten, and now also struggling to survive.
And Richard is campaigning on her behalf.
Because he knows the truth.
His undercover cameras recorded it all:
The betrayal,
The jealousy,
The daughter he raised,
And the maids he trusted.
And when a billionaire is sitting around you he does not love you tenderly.
He loves revenge.
It is a burning love story.
A novel of injuries, mysteries, infatuation, and a girl who had made an entrance to a mansion and robbed the heart of the wrong man.
And he will ruin him who attempts to steal her.