bIn Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter's highly anticipated new novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them. b pIn the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. pBut Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden butter, flamb, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. pElsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college tech scholarship in the big city. A flawless student, she is set up for success...until her school pulls her funding, leaving her to face either a mountain of debt or a humiliating return home. But Reiko is done being at the mercy of the system. She forges a third path--outside of the law. pWith the guidance of a mysterious cookbook written by a kitchen maid centuries ago,