ANGELINA'S BACHELORS

Angelina, a woman in her thirties is suddenly widowed. Not one for grief or mourning, she builds a second chance at life and love when she is offered a curious proposition: to host and provide meals at her home for a bachelor in the neighborhood. One becomes seven, and Angelina suddenly has a veritable business, and a host of new friends to fill the void left in her husband's absence. We gather around the table with Basil Cupertino, Don Eddie and Big Phil, and revel in a clashing of the sexes and haute cuisine with down-home attitude. We also meet Guy and Jerry, the two men who will take a stab at winning Angelina's heart. The novel transports us from shock and loss to reconnection and the possibility of love, all through the expression of one central passion: cooking. It is the pleasure and escape offered through the heartfelt, intimate, and yet communal experience of cooking that become this novel's most winning ingredients. With dashes of Julie & Julia and Big Night, ANGELINA'S BACHELORS is ultimately its own distinct creation the perfect curl-up-on-your couch, cozy winter night read. The novel includes actual recipes crafted and tested by the author's wife, a former culinary producer on the Food Network's television program Dinner: Impossible. BRIAN O'REILLY is an executive producer of Dinner: Impossible, currently in its seventh season and consistently one of the highest-rated series on that network. He is author of the book, Mission: Cook! (HarperCollins, 2007), part adventure story, part cookbook, with Chef Robert Irvine, and the sequel, Impossible to Easy (HarperCollins, 2010). He is currently creator and executive producer of two new series in development for American Public Television: See How They Ran,? a documentary series with CBS News' Jeff Greenfield on the evolution of political campaigning; and Mythconceptions,? a series that dissects widely-held fallacies in history, starring Monty Python's Terry Jones. O'Reilly has written and produced commercial spots for a number of political and public relations campaigns.