Shifted? It was like the first time he had tasted couverture chocolate. His world had suddenly made sense in an instant. Years of thinking that the world was comprised of just baking chocolate and eating chocolate. On his own, he’d improved until he could create flavors and textures that won amateur awards. Then he’d tasted couverture. The exceptional quality and increased cocoa butter content provided astonishing results in sheen, snap, mellow flavor, and a creamy mouth feel. In that instant, recipes and techniques had reconfigured in his mind until he understood just what was possible. Chocolate had shifted from a world he understood to one that he couldn’t wait to spend the rest of his life exploring. Linda Hamlin was exactly like that. Until now he knew women and how to please them.