When a grumpy mountain man agrees to supply her festival, she doesn’t expect him to claim more than her pumpkins…

Event planner Tessa Langley is desperate - her business, her future, and her pride are all riding on the Cedar Falls Harvest Festival. There’s just one problem: the only pumpkin farmer within a hundred miles is a brooding, broad-shouldered recluse who hates crowds… and city girls.

Brody Kane has three rules: no festivals, no complications, and no getting close to anyone who can break his heart. Tessa is a walking violation of all three. But her fire, curves, and stubborn determination spark something in him he swore he’d buried for good.

Now they’re partners in business, and maybe something far more dangerous. Between stolen glances, slow-burn touches, and nights that taste like whiskey and sin, the lines between contract and connection blur.

He’s grumpy, she’s sunshine. He’s the mountain, she’s the storm. And in a town where everyone knows your business, they’ll have to decide if this fling can survive past the festival gates.

Tropes: Grumpy/sunshine, small town romance, opposites attract, forced proximity, slow burn to steamy, protective hero, strong heroine, mountain man romance, possessive hero, curvy heroine, HEA.