Returning home to his familys winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his ivy league job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life. Reprint.
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From Tessa Bailey#1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and the Michelangelo of dirty talk (Entertainment Weekly)comes a spicy small town rom-com about a grumpy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn...
Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his familys winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if shell finally get that smooch. But the starchy professor isnt the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly.
On sabbatical from his Ivy League job, Julian plans to write a novel. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. Shes eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirtand so unbelievably beautiful, he cant focus on anything else. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past
which may have been left by Hallie during one wine-fueled girls night. Oops.
Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, hes sucked further into Hallies orbit. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julians grayscale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But theres something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down.
