Hex Kitchen is a once-a-decade tournament where contestants have to cook magical dishes that are to die...and maybe even to kill...for. Kenzie has perfected the art of outrunning her past. New city, new tattoos, new name. No one from her former life as a chef at one of Manhattan's top culinary hot spots would think to look for her in the middle-of-nowhere Tennessee. When Kenzie's dishes go from normal to inexplicably bizarre, she is plunged into the secret world of magical cuisine. On the other side of the globe, famed culinary magician Braxton McKaid is cooking up a storm. He's just days away from a tournament with a mysterious prize that is powerful enough to save his family's failing restaurant empire. But his preparations are derailed when a ghost from his past turns all of his thoughts away from the tournament and onto revenge. When Braxton and Kenzie's paths collide, the result is betrayal, a perilous attraction, and a brewing threat neither can escape unscathed. What begins as a magical cooking tournament transforms into a fight for their lives...where only one can win.