Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian's grey-scale life. Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, he's sucked further into Hallie's orbit. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past. She's eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt-and so unbelievably beautiful, he can't focus on anything else.
But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. One wine-fueled girls' night later, Hallie can't shake the sense that she did something reckless-and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. But the grumpy professor isn't the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly.
When Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to their small Napa town. Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. LA is calling her name, but Brendan-and this town full of memories-may have already caught her heart.From #1 New York Times bestselling author and TikTok favorite Tessa Bailey comes a steamy new rom-com about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them.Īs she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather-and the hot, grumpy local-that she’s more than a pretty face.Įxcept it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels.
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