The Golden Spoon

, a younger, brash celebrity chef. Sabotage quickly escalates—sugar is replaced with salt, and burners are tampered with—culminating in the discovery of a body. The Dangers of Rivalry:

Elias would smile, crumb-dusted and calm. “But this one fits my hand.” The Golden Spoon

He turned to leave, but the fog had crept under the door and filled the bakery like a sleeping breath. The windows were gone. The walls were gone. Silas found himself standing not in the bakery but in a long, narrow corridor made of bone-white wood, lit by candles that burned without smoke. At the far end sat a table. On the table, a single bowl of cold stew. And in Silas’s hand, the golden spoon. , a younger, brash celebrity chef