The beachside shop, Malibu & Ewe, is the knitting hot spot for L.A.’s hip young crowd to enjoy colorful yarn and intimate conversation. Through the back doors comes the sounds of the Pacific surf, and inside you can hear the dish on brewing new romances…

Chef Nikki Carmichael’s bum knee has ended her days in a restaurant kitchen but she has new possibilities as the private chef for man-about-town Jay Buchanan. No, not those kind of possibilities, even though the terms of her employment include acting as his girlfriend on occasion.  Nikki’s looking for work, not love, and certainly not with über-bachelor, boink-‘em-then-wave-bye-bye Jay. Which should be fine with him, since he claims to have given up women for the next three-hundred-sixty-five loooong days and even loooonger nights.

But Nikki’s ability to withstand his charms only serves to ensnare his interest. He finds himself hanging out in his kitchen more and more, even as the heat between them rises to dangerous levels. Despite his vow to keep away from the fairer sex, Jay’s starting to think it’s time to turn up the flames…

Susan Wiggs calls How to Knit a Wild Bikini an “irresistible read!”

Read an excerpt here.