Tessa Bailey

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation 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 family’s winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to their small town. When Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she’ll finally get that smooch. But the grumpy professor isn’t the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. 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. 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. She’s eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt—and so unbelievably beautiful, he can’t focus on anything else. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past. Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, he’s sucked further into Hallie’s orbit. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian’s gray-scale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But there’s something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down.

A Novel

Secretly Yours

Lindsey Barnett

He loathed the word"approximately." If he could remove one word from the dictionary, it would be "approximately," followed by "nearly and "somewhat." 

She shook herself as if embarrassed she’d been speaking for so long. As if he wasn’t praying she’d continue. 

I wonder if I'm who I'm meant to be or ifI'm just too distracted to keep evolving. 

Love was being stripped down to the bones. Being more than willing to beg for more.

Maybe time wasn't something that could be controlled at all; it was about making time matter with the people he cared about.

Sara Poole

I wonder if I'm who I'm meant to be or if l'm just too distracted to keep evolving.

“She's a rare spot of sunshine, and you're committed to huddling in the shade."

"I'd dim her glow. l'd change her, and I would hate myself for it."

Then why is his hair brown on the cover?😅

Beyond gorgeous, really, with his ropey forearms and perfectly groomed black hair.

Manda

No one gets anything worthwhile on the first try. That's why we evolve. That's why we change. 

Growing means getting through the hard stuff and coming out stronger on the other side.

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