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Olives and Obsessions

By Daisy Landish
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Level 1 Intimacy
No Innuendo
Zero Swearing
Mild Violence
Adult
LGBTQ Side Character

Trigger Warnings

Book Details

Genre

Contemporary Romance, Cozy Mystery

Publisher

Self Published

Series

Sophie Brooks Culinary Mysteries

Book #

2

Point of View

Length

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Synopsis

In Tuscany, the oldest secrets press hardest.

Food blogger Sophie Brooks arrives at the De Luca family’s agriturismo in Montepulciano to document something simple: the olive harvest, the ancient press, the food traditions that have survived everything Europe has thrown at them. She finds that — and a dead patriarch, a buried wartime journal, and a conspiracy that stretches from a Tuscan grove to international boardrooms.

Marco De Luca was eighty-three years old and knew something that got him killed. The authorities ruled it an accident. Sophie doesn’t believe them.

As the harvest festival approaches and the men who silenced Marco begin circling the farmhouse, Sophie must decode a decades-old secret hidden in the De Luca land — one involving wartime mineral rights, a development syndicate with no ethical floor, and a family who has been protecting the truth at enormous cost. When threats escalate from warnings to danger and a child goes missing, Sophie publishes to fifty thousand readers and hopes the truth moves faster than the men trying to bury it.

Olives & Obsessions is the second book in the Sophie Brooks Culinary Mystery series — richer, higher-stakes, and set against the most beautiful backdrop the series has visited yet.

Perfect for fans of Italian cozy mysteries, culinary fiction with travel, and amateur sleuths who fight with words and win.

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Olives and Obsessions

By Daisy Landish

Genre

Contemporary Romance, Cozy Mystery

Publisher

Self Published

Series

Sophie Brooks Culinary Mysteries

Book #

2

Point of View

Length

Narrator(s)

Narration Type

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Content Guide

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Level 1 Intimacy
No Innuendo
Zero Swearing
Mild Violence
Adult
LGBTQ Side Character

Trigger Warnings

Synopsis

In Tuscany, the oldest secrets press hardest.

Food blogger Sophie Brooks arrives at the De Luca family’s agriturismo in Montepulciano to document something simple: the olive harvest, the ancient press, the food traditions that have survived everything Europe has thrown at them. She finds that — and a dead patriarch, a buried wartime journal, and a conspiracy that stretches from a Tuscan grove to international boardrooms.

Marco De Luca was eighty-three years old and knew something that got him killed. The authorities ruled it an accident. Sophie doesn’t believe them.

As the harvest festival approaches and the men who silenced Marco begin circling the farmhouse, Sophie must decode a decades-old secret hidden in the De Luca land — one involving wartime mineral rights, a development syndicate with no ethical floor, and a family who has been protecting the truth at enormous cost. When threats escalate from warnings to danger and a child goes missing, Sophie publishes to fifty thousand readers and hopes the truth moves faster than the men trying to bury it.

Olives & Obsessions is the second book in the Sophie Brooks Culinary Mystery series — richer, higher-stakes, and set against the most beautiful backdrop the series has visited yet.

Perfect for fans of Italian cozy mysteries, culinary fiction with travel, and amateur sleuths who fight with words and win.

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Physical Intimacy Levels

Level 1

  • Holding hands or affectionate touching
  • Compliments or confessing love
  • Low-description kissing
  • Tender embraces or cuddling
  • Blushing and sighing
  • Non-descriptive discussions of sex
  • Established relationships
  • Fade to black if married
  • Any sexual encounters are only referred to from the past, not described or shown on page
 

Level 2

  • Touch that signals attraction
  • No touching in the underwear zone
  • Long kisses, lightly descriptive
  • Deeper kisses, tongue implied but not described
  • Feeling warm or flushed
  • Gasping, deep sighs, light growls or groans
  • Thinking or speaking about desire in a non-descriptive way
  • Fade to black for established relationships after a scene that matches this level, though this may be unpopular if they are not married
 

Level 3

 

  • Hands moving, still not in the underwear zone
  • French kissing with tongue described
  • Make-out sessions that still follow these guidelines
  • Feeling hot or sweaty
  • Heavier gasping, groaning, deep growls, or panting
  • More frantic moments and some loss of control
  • Male shirt may come off, but nothing else
  • Leg may straddle waist, but no mention of arousal
  • If characters lie down together, there should be little description of contact or movement
  • May happen in a bedroom or on a bed, but should be interrupted or end with a fade to black scene
  • Focus stays on the emotion
  • Fade to black should still happen between married couples or at the end of the book between engaged or committed couples

Innuendo Levels

Level 0 — None

  • No sexual innuendo
  • No suggestive humor
  • No crude or sexual jokes

Level 1 — Minimal

  • Minimal innuendo or double meanings
  • Light teasing
  • Mild crude or dad humor
  • Not frequent or strong

Level 2 — Moderate

  • Moderate suggestive humor
  • Double meanings
  • Sexual tension
  • May include crude or sexual jokes

Level 3 — Heavy

  • Heavy innuendo
  • Strong suggestive dialogue
  • Frequent crude or sexual humor

Swearing Levels

Zero

  • No swearing

Mild

  • Up to 10 uses of “hel*” or “dam*”

Moderate

  • 10+ uses of “hel*” or “dam*”
  • And/or use of bodily swear words like “shi*,” “as*,” etc.

Severe

  • 30+ swear words
  • And/or any use of the F-word one or more times

Violence Levels

Zero

  • No on-page violence

Mild

  • Violence is present without detail or only referenced vaguely
  • May briefly mention blood or injuries
  • Comparable to a G-rated movie

Moderate

  • Violence is more frequent and/or more detailed
  • Can be more intense
  • Injuries may be lightly described
  • Comparable to a PG-rated movie

Severe

  • Violence is more detailed and frequent
  • Blood may be mentioned and injuries may be described in detail
  • Comparable to a PG-13-rated movie

Intimacy Levels

Level 1

  • Holding hands/Affectionate touching
  • Compliments/confessing love
  • Low-description kissing
  • Tender embraces/cuddling
  • Blushing and sighing
  • Non-descriptive discussions of sex
  • Established relationships
  • Fade to black if married
  • Any sexual encounters from past only referred to, not described or on-screen

Level 2

  • Touch that signals attraction
  • No touching in underwear zone
  • Long kisses, lightly descriptive
  • Deeper kisses, tongue implied not described
  • Feel warm/flushed
  • Gasping, deep sighs, light growls and groans
  • Thinking/speaking about desire non-descriptive
  • Fade to black for established relationships after a scene that matches this level – but may be unpopular if not married

Level 3

  • Hands moving, still not in underwear zone
  • French kiss with tongue described
  • Make-out sessions still follow guidelines
  • Feel hot, sweating
  • Heavier gasping, groaning, deep growls, panting
  • More frantic and lose some control
  • Male shirt may come off, but nothing else
  • Leg may straddle waist, but no mention of arousal
  • If they lay down together anywhere, use little description of contact/moving
  • May happen in a bedroom or on a bed, but should be interrupted or end with fade to black scene. Keep focus on the emotion.
  • Fade to black should still happen between married couples or at the end of the book between engaged/committed couples.