Sweet on You

Darcy Rossetti's fiance has sabotaged her promotion, so she packs up her cat and drives to her family's peach farm in West Virginia, the one place she has always felt she belonged. Her plan for the summer is simple: no cell service, no complications, and time to work out what she wants next.

The plan falls apart when she spots one of the farmhands. Jake Warren is the cowboy who stared at her in a sports bar back in her hometown. Darcy sets herself a rule: keep away from Jake, and she can allow herself anything else she likes. Jake does not intend to let her keep it.

This is a spicy small-town romance with a slow-burn pull between the two leads. Forced proximity on the farm keeps them in each other's way, and the banter between them carries much of the story. As the summer heats up, Jake shows he is sweet on Darcy, and the farm begins to feel like the home she did not realise she needed.

The world beyond the orchard does not stay away for long, though. Pressures from outside reach the farm, and one of the two will have to decide what they are willing to give up for the other.

It is the first book in the Painter Creek series. Expect a warm, teasing tone and a summer setting, with the romance at the center.