Secretly Yours (A Vine Mess #1)
Tessa Bailey
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
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Explicit open door [?]
· 300 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 07 Feb 2023
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 to 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.
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Tagged as:
- grumpy & sunshine 24
- contemporary 22
- funny 21
- friends to lovers 14
- cheerful/happy heroine 14
- virgin heroine 14
- new adult 13
- small town 13
- curvy heroine 13
- nerdy hero 13
- teacher/coach hero 10
- forced proximity 9
- grumpy/cold hero 9
- sassy heroine 9
- height difference 8
- rich hero 8
- neurodivergent mc 8
- possessive hero 7
- sweet/gentle heroine 7
- m-f romance 7
- tortured hero 5
- slow burn 4
- shy hero 4
- second chances 4
- praise kink 3
- insta-love 3
- working class heroine 3
- young adult 2
- class difference 2
- enemies to lovers 1
- sweet/gentle hero 1
- workplace/office 1
- age gap 1
- masc-dom 1
- independent heroine 1
- take-charge heroine 1
- competent heroine 1
- tortured heroine 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- mental illness 10
- death / grief 7
- ableism 5
- alcoholism 4
- mental trauma 2
- body betrayal 1
- past abuse 1
- third party abuse 1
- geography
- california 7
- north america 1
- usa 1
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 9
- third person pov 6
- male pov 2
- standalone 1
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The 'A Vine Mess' series
3.63 · 559 ratings
new adult · height-difference · sassy heroine · competent heroine · contemporary · audiobook · m-f · alcoholism · male-pov · independent heroine · forced proximity · humor · usa · death · north-america · small town · class difference · tortured hero · grumpy sunshine · strong heroine
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