Bloom Watch

About this book

Seven years ago, she sent him home without a word. Now she's back in the middle of bloom, with an offer that could take him away for good.

Frankie Solberg makes cider in Washington's Yakima Valley, and her company has one season left. So she drives down to Bramble Creek, Oregon, with an offer the Rourke family can't afford to ignore: a buyer for their old heritage block, and a job for the man she walked away from.

Emmett Rourke makes the family's cider, says as little as possible, and has spent seven years not answering a number from Washington. He never asked why she ended it, and he has never told anyone what he keeps in the Christmas box in his mother's back bedroom.

Now the orchard is white with blossom, the nights are clear and still, and every thermometer on the hill is creeping toward twenty-eight degrees. Frankie has a bank deadline at the end of May. Emmett has a family he already stayed for once. And somebody in his own kitchen knows exactly why she came back.

When the frost comes in full bloom, the whole Rourke family will be out in the rows until sunrise. By morning, one of them will have to decide which valley gets a future.

Bloom Watch is a steamy, second chance small-town romance with a loud, loving family, a cidery and an orchard in blossom, a grown-up love story with real stakes, and a happy ever after worth the wait. It's Book Two in the Bramble Creek series and can be read as a standalone.