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.
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 to their small Napa town.
When Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if shell finally get that smooch.
But the grumpy professor isnt the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly.
One wine-fueled girls night later, Hallie cant shake the sense that she did something reckless--and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian.
Oh shit .
On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans write a novel.
But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction.
Shes eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt--and so unbelievably beautiful, he cant focus on anything else.
Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.
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 grey-scale 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.
