Loving Bailey

From New York Times bestselling author Evelyn Adams, a small-town Southern romance of friends-to-lovers longing, a Mr.-Right-Now that starts to feel like Mr. Right, and a gun-shy farmer who has to risk his heart before someone else claims hers.

Chef Bailey Southerland can't get any satisfaction-at least not the kind that counts. She has family and friends she adores and a career on the rise, but her love life is a soufflé that never quite manages to rise with it. Then a writer with clear blue eyes and an easy, open manner moves into the cottage down the hill, and things finally seem to be tilting her way. She doesn't need him to be Mr. Right. He'd make a very fine Mr. Right Now.

Badly burned before, Trace Campbell has all but convinced himself he's content being just friends with his gorgeous neighbor. If he can't put his hands on Bailey, at least he can put them in the soil-growing the produce her restaurant needs, keeping her close and at a safe distance both. But strawberries are a poor stand-in for the kisses he can't stop thinking about, and when another man turns up plainly interested in far more than Bailey's cooking, Trace has to pull his head out of the dirt and put his heart on the line-or lose the woman he loves.

Perfect for readers who love:
- Friends-to-lovers small-town Southern romance
- A driven chef and her gun-shy farmer neighbor
- Warm, steamy, slow-simmering heat
- Second chances and a rival who forces the leap