Nora Whitaker is done with dating apps.After one too many dead-end conversations, Nora decides love must be easier to find in real life. So she signs up for every adult class she can find: wine tasting, pottery, salsa, baking, and cooking.Unfortunately, her plan is not going well.The wine class is full of couples. Pottery is awkward. Salsa is humiliating. And cooking class starts with Nora nearly ruining dinner in front of Elliot Hayes, the calm and quietly handsome instructor who notices far more than she wants him to.When Elliot offers Nora private lessons after hours, she tells herself it is only about learning how to cook. But warm kitchen lights, flour-dusted counters, shared dinners, and one almost-kiss make it harder to pretend this is just another class.Nora came looking for a man.She did not expect to find someone who saw her clearly in the middle of the mess.Private Lessons is a cozy contemporary romantic comedy about dating exhaustion, cooking class disasters, and the unexpected sweetness of being chosen exactly as you are.