For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. 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 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. and her very presence is turning his world upside down.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. But there’s something so familiar about her. 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.

She’s eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt-and so unbelievably beautiful, he can’t focus on anything else.

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.

Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family’s winery.

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.

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