Where Dreams Taste Like Chocolate Angelo’s Hearth was my first series. It’s a series of four books plus one novella (because the character, Maria, insisted on her own story which grew too big for a short story). Where Dreams Are Born, Where Dreams Reside, Maria’s Christmas, Where Dreams Unfold, and Where Dreams Are Written is a contemporary romance series set in and around Angelo’s Tuscan Hearth Restaurant in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. I call it five novels about three women, because it was originally conceived as a trilogy around a circle of college friends whom circumstances have reunited a decade later. I lived and worked in Seattle for over twenty years. I sailed (book 1), worked in law (book 2), worked in restaurants (book 3), served in the opera’s computer department (book 4), a