NOT TODAY SATAN, NOT TODAY: A Harlem newbie is forced to open a massive café with zero restaurant experience. What’s brewing is more dangerous than a hot oven. 

An exaggerated tale based on a true story from a very real restaurant in Harlem 

By Emmy-winner Jenna DeAngeles

After fleeing a marriage shattered by tragedy, Jenna crash-lands in Harlem, 3,000 miles from Bel Air, clinging to a fragile plan: open Hamilton’s — a café dreamed up with her old friend Anney, a magnetic Black, gay chef with ambitions as big as her heart. But. Anney vanishes: Jenna is left holding an $11,000-a-month lease, an empty nest egg, zero restaurant experience, and a crew of ex-cons, philanderers, and horny wildcats who don’t follow anyone’s rules. Especially not hers…

Satan, for sure, has a standing reservation.

And hovering over it all: Harlem’s unspoken code, whispered threats from the streets. Cops who serve $10,000 fines and steal sugar packets.  The growing shadow of Rome — Jenn’s first love, the one who shattered her heart, suddenly back - when she’s least prepared. Inside Hamilton’s, tempers flare, hormones run hot, and loyalty comes with a price. Outside, in the shadows, an attack at knifepoint is planned --

At its core, Not Today, Satan, Not Today is about finding family — in the kitchen, in Harlem, and in your own heart. It’s about grief, faith, redemption, true love, and the desperate need for connection in a swirling, caffeinated world that never stops.

This is a story about outsiders colliding, forging a family under fire, unearthing what’s sacred, and stumbling over the truth: That in a place like Hamilton’s, everyone is transformed — but not everyone can survive the heat.

Hamilton’s. Come for the food. Stay forever.

• Cutting-edge kitchen porn like The Bear - sprawling, imprisoned, and gritty like Orange Is the New Black.

Memoir and Pilot available on request.

HIS F*CKING LIES: Madison is a Santa Monica mom with a delicious husband when her life suddenly explodes. Hubby Kurt gets diagnosed with testicular cancer – but that’s not the gut punch. When Madison opens his laptop to research chemo, she discovers the unthinkable: Kurt’s secret sex life.

Madison goes rabid. Breaks shit. Forced to trade in her Lululemon’s, she enters the Vistas Rehab for a program to heal shattered hearts and (hopefully) resuscitate marriages. There, she and Leilani, Kat, Luna, and Allie, form a reluctant sisterhood after sex, secrets, and infidelity detonate their curated lives. Together, they navigate rage, revenge, addiction, and love - only to discover that the wounds of betrayal are deeper—and funnier—than any of them expected.

But healing comes at a cost. And not everyone survives. Madison’s posse of deceived wives ignite the unexpected – dirty secrets, hard lies, and a very public murder.

This darkly comedic novel is about sex, betrayal, and the bumpy road back from a shattered heart.

• Soapy and entwined like Big Little Lies, as juicy as Fifty Shades.

Novel and Pilot available on request.