Exciting announcement! TASTE, A Novel, coming early 2027. From Atmosphere Press.

In TASTE, readers meet Byronic hero, master sommelier Jason Frazier. He’s hot, single, and one of Wine Observer’s “40 under 40.” A legendary blind taster with uncanny talent, Jason sets his sights on TV stardom. He plans to build an empire and finally put to rest his family’s belief that he merely “drinks for a living” by winning the most elite, nationally televised wine competition in Vegas and getting a three-show network deal. 

Then, he loses his sense of taste.

Complicated family dynamics amp up when his wealthy father dies. Jason suddenly becomes his alcoholic mother’s conservator. She moves to LA to be near him, eroding his perfectly ordered life. Jason is publicly set up with an A-list actress who could catapult him to the top of the Hollywood machine. For Jason, real romance is a hard pass––until he meets a lowly wine rep who is far from his type. Yet, for the first time, a woman challenges him. It’s inconvenient and irritating, but he can’t shake her. 

Jason’s taste is not returning; his inheritance is at risk, his romantic life is in shambles, and he spirals down. Will he devise a way to win in Vegas without his superpower, receiving the success he’s set his sights on? Will he choose love over selling out to Hollywood?

TASTE is a fast-paced, page-turning commercial contemporary romance powered by an antagonistic protagonist readers will root for. If Chuck Palahniuk and Emily Henry collaborated on a romance novel, with a hint of suspense as in the novel You, by Caroline Kepnes.