Service Under Glass

Synopsis

When Mara Ellison arrives in Paris to become the new sous-chef of Maison Laroque, she expects hostility, exhaustion, and the merciless precision of a kitchen chasing a third star. She does not expect a poisoned turbot to send a guest to intensive care on her second week. With the restaurant one scandal away from collapse, celebrated chef Adrien Laroque refuses to close. Mara is forced to keep service moving while quietly tracing a sabotage campaign that reaches through suppliers, investors, critics, and the brigade itself. Every plate must leave perfect. Every colleague may be lying. And the closer Mara comes to the truth, the more she suspects the poisoning was never meant to destroy one dinner—it was meant to erase an empire.