Secretly Yours: A Novel

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Tessa Bailey#1New York Timesbestselling 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...

Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after theyalmostkissed in the dark vineyards of his familys winery. 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. But the starchy professor isnt the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly.

One wine-fueled girls night later, Hallie cant shake the sense that she did something recklessand 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. Shes eccentric, chronically late, oftenliterallycovered in dirtand so unbelievably beautiful, he cant focus on anything else. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.

Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, hes sucked further into Hallies orbit. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julians grayscale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But theres something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down.

"Tessa Bailey is the queen of rom-coms. Long may she reign!"Julie Murphy, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofA Merry Little Meet Cute

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Tessa Bailey is the queen of rom-coms. Long may she reign!" Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Meet Cute "This sexy opposites-attract romantic comedy features witty banter, steamy dialogue, and well-developed characters... Readers will devour Baileys latest (after Hook, Line, and Sinker) in one sitting, then go back to again and again to pick up on its intricate subtleties. Highly recommended." Library Journal(starred review) "With her latest addictively readable rom-com, the cheeky humor and full-blown sexiness that are organic elements in all of Baileys writing are in full, glorious bloom. The end result is a lushly sensual romance that brilliantly exploits the opposites-attract trope between a buttoned-up, by-the-book academic and a cheerfully chaotic Earth goddess-gardener for the maximum amount of love and laughter." Booklist "Romance readers awaiting Tessa Bailey's next will savor her playful secret-admirer romance..." Popsugar "A haughty professor and a spirited gardener face off in this raunchy and enchanting rom-com from bestseller Bailey... The witty banter and gripping tension will make this a treat for the authors many fans." Publishers Weekly Tessa disarms you with a laugh, heats things up past boiling, and then puts a squeeze inside your heart. The tenderness, vulnerability and heat I am always guaranteed with a Tessa Bailey book are the reasons she is one of my all-time favorite authors. Sally Thorne Her voice feels as fresh and contemporary as a Netflix rom-com...Bailey writesbanter and rom-com scenarios with aplomb, but for those who like their romance on the spicier side,shes also the Michelangelo of dirty talk. She wields filth like Da Vinci does a paintbrush, and theres a lot to be said for an author who can fill such exchanges with all the requisite heat, enthusiastic consent, and yes, even humor, of such a scenario without veering into corny territory. Entertainment Weekly Tessa Bailey writes pure magic... heartwarming romance, laugh-out-loud humor, and scorching hot chemistry. Alexis Daria With her singular talent for writing romantic chemistry that is both sparkling sweet and explosively sexy, Tessa Bailey once again delivers... one of the genres very best. Kate Clayborn Bailey is a master at articulating emotion through both narrative prose and dialogue... Every page in this fabulous novel is pure romance gold. BookPage(Starred Review) on Hook, Line, and Sinker Bailey strikes rom-com gold in this outstanding tale...[She] is bound to earn new followers with love scenes hot enough to boil water and a hilariously naveSchitts Creek-inspired protagonist who is clearly out of her depth. Booklist (starred review) on It Happened One Summer A romantic comedy delight... It Happened One Summer will be your absolute jam. Christina Lauren

Author Bio

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tessa Bailey lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and young daughter. When she isn't writing or reading romance, Tessa enjoys a good argument and thirty-minute recipes.