Thought there would be more scenes with corked. The letters weren’t a stand out for me but liked the idea.

The dogs I didn’t think they were necessary Owen I thought we would see way more of his presence in this book I do have a few things that I’m like why wasn’t it explored or added to the story such as: There is some mental health rep in this and let me tell you the mouth on Julian wow sign me up. I loved Natalie, Julian’s sister and the relationship he worked to get back with his sister and mum. I liked there progression as characters and balancing out for each other. I love how opposite Hallie and Julian were. Long may she reign!' - Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Meet Cute Read more and her very presence is turning his world upside down. But there’s something so familiar about her. 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 grayscale life. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.Įven 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.

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 starchy professor isn’t the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and 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 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.

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