Bad Apples: An Enemies-to-Lovers Small-Town Romantic Comedy (Cider Falls Steamy Rom Com Series Book 1)
About
Rule one of saving a dying orchard: do not fall for the chef who stood in your trees at six in the morning and called your apples “insufficient.”
Reader, I broke rule one.
I came home to Cider Falls to keep my family’s farm alive — not to lose a cook-off to Eli Marchetti, Boston’s most exacting, most aggravating, most unfairly handsome disgraced chef. And definitely not to end up his partner. Equal creative control, he said. We fight, we taste, the one who’s right wins, he said. Nobody warned me that arguing about maple, plate shapes, and the correct thickness of an apple slice would be the best foreplay of my life.
Now the Harvest Festival needs a miracle, the orchard needs the festival, and we need to keep our hands off each other in public until it’s over. Which would be easier if the whole town weren’t watching. And betting. Literally — there are brackets, and my old geometry teacher is running the book.
I do not have time to want this man. Someone please tell my pulse.
Tropes
- Enemies to lovers
- Grumpy / sunshine
- Forced proximity
- Small-town romance
- Return to hometown
- Rivals to partners
- Slow burn
Cider Falls, Book One. A steamy enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, secret-relationship small-town romcom with a guaranteed HEA. Reads as a standalone.