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Carlos’s role in the food and wine fest was three-fold and simple: He’d host a one-hour, audience-interactive cooking demonstration; join five chefs in presenting a charity fundraiser “celebrity chef” dinner; and sign books at a launch party celebrating the release of his new cookbook, Carlos in the Kitchen.

The launch party, sponsored by the publisher, Lone Wolf Press, was his last event in the lineup. And, by all accounts, the most important to him.

There was a lot riding on this book.

As the taxi stopped in front of the Hotel St. Michel, Carlos tucked a copy of the new cookbook under his arm.

No one need know that Carlos and Max were the driving force behind Lone Wolf. It wasn’t ideal to self-publish and throw a party for himself. But his former publisher had dropped him and these days corporate sponsors were hard to come by.

The way he and Max had sheltered the publishing house, no one need be the wiser. Right now, that was the last thing on his mind. Things were off to a great start. Max, who deserved a huge bonus once they got on their feet, had secured an interview with the new host of The Diva Dishes. That interview was the reason he’d rushed back to the hotel.