When the recipe calls for death, you need secret ingredients. Fast! Kate Stark owns the #1 cooking network on television. When a chef and a guest judge die on the air, all fingers point to her. But Kate faces her own problems: Five years ago, while a Special Agent in the U. S. Secret Service, she busted a major North Korean currency counterfeiting ring. Now the North Koreans want payback. Primetime! From New York TV studios and the Chrysler Building penthouse suite to the Panama Canal and a DPRK smuggling ship, Kate races to stay alive and recruit her team: a geek, a Marine, her con-man twin brother, and a very handsome guest judge. Death toll so far? ONE CHEF!