TV cooking personality Augusta Simpson determines to take her show to Number 1 to remove the threat of a younger presenter being brought in as co-host. The format of her show will be a series of intimate dinners where she teaches a group of younger people to make rich, sensuous meals -- real food for real people -- nourishing the soul as well as tempting the tastebuds. The guests are all her friends -- an assorted group of ages and races with different problems, which, of course, get solved along with the dinners. Comfort food. A celebration of life itself. www.comfortfoodnovel.com

Author Biography

Kate Jacobs left her native Canada to earn a graduate degree at New York University -- and made her home in Manhattan for a decade, where she worked at Redbook, Working Woman, Family Life and LifetimeTV.com. Currently she lives in Southern California with her husband. To find out more about her novels, visit Kate's website at www.katejacobsbooks.com.