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. Hallie’s letter is brave and cathartic, and in the good-hearted world of a Tessa Bailey rom-com, such an action deserves to be rewarded with a happily ever after.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. And fans of epistolary romances will be particularly tickled by Bailey’s modern nod to the format. Bailey’s humor and optimism shine through her characters, making both Hallie and Julian compelling and interesting figures. He’s all about order she can’t avoid chaos. He irons his socks she gardens from the heart. Julian’s planning tendencies are the perfect foil to Hallie’s spontaneous ones, and Bailey peppers the story with funny demonstrations of their personalities. He has no idea how to relax, but the beautiful gardener his mother hired is proving to be a distraction he didn’t anticipate. Now a professor at Stanford, Julian is supposedly on sabbatical, but he actually just traded his rigid school schedule for a rigid novel-writing schedule. Why Tessa Bailey will never write a book without love scenes. Because in a wine-fueled haze, she writes a love letter to the object of her teenage self’s obsession, Julian Vos, who she happens to be working for over the summer.
Hallie embarks on a one-woman attempt to save Corked but soon learns the hard way that day drinking should be done in moderation.
Grab a glass and settle in for an opposites-attract, grumpy-sunshine love story that’s as smooth and enjoyable as a good Pinot Noir.Īs Secretly Yours begins, gardener Hallie Welch is feeling nostalgic, ruminating on Uncorked, the new wine shop in her small town that’s taking business away from the oldie but goody across the street, Corked. Tessa Bailey, queen of the steamy rom-com, kicks off a new series set in Napa Valley with Secretly Yours.
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