How long can Eliza keeping looking over her shoulder before she finally sees her own death approaching?New Year's means resolutions, getting on track, making decisions.For Eliza Carlisle, starting a new year means making tough choices, even if those decisions mean losing friends and possibly getting kicked out of culinary school. She's all set to take her life in a new direction when her demented half-brother Simon's reappearance changes everything.Broken and more alone than she's been since fleeing her childhood home, Eliza struggles to hang onto the fragile threads that are holding her life together. Only a comically disastrous young chef and the threats against her life pull Eliza out of her fog of self-loathing. Saving seven-year-old Clara means ignoring the threat Simon now poses and surrendering to burnt grilled cheese sandwiches and whipped cream-splattered kitchens...not to mention family secrets, death threats, and a whole host of spy gadgets. And who can forget about Baxter?With so much mounted against her, Eliza has as much chance of surviving the criminal elite, her psychotic half-brother, and Baxter's determined advances as she does escaping Chef Harper's quest to kill her culinary dreams.