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"The Last Service"

A Mimosa Bakery Prequel

Before Wren Harper inherited a bakery in the south of France, she had a secret — and a recipe that wasn't hers.

On her last night at Linden & Ash, a Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco, Wren is about to walk out of the best kitchen she's ever worked in. But first, she has to get through one final service. And the food critics have just arrived.

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The tart was perfect. I knew it the way you know, after years in a kitchen, without tasting it, without measuring it again, without asking anyone else's opinion. The mimosa cream had set exactly right — just firm enough to hold a quenelle but yielding at the first pressure of a spoon. The citrus curd underneath shone like polished brass. Nobody at Linden & Ash was going to taste the difference. That wasn't the point. The point was that I knew.

— The Last Service, A Mimosa Bakery Prequel

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What's in "The Last Service"

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Wren before France

Meet Wren at her sharpest — and most cornered — the night before she boards a plane to a village she's never seen.

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The recipe that started it all

The Mimosa tart. The one Wren developed on her days off. The one that appeared on the menu under someone else's name.

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A chef she had to leave behind

Marcus Wade. Brilliant, unpleasant, and the reason Les Mimosas suddenly looked like a reasonable idea.

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The decision that changed everything

One service. One moment. The choice Wren makes that sends her — and this series — to the south of France.

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