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The city fixer. The grease-stained mechanic. The fall neither of them planned.

Morgan Vale hasn’t set foot in Bellwether, New York, in fifteen years—not since a public humiliation taught her that needing a place gives it power to break you. She has built a career turning chaos into spreadsheets and has never looked back. But when her grandmother shatters her ankle and the family orchard faces collapse weeks before the town’s biggest festival, Morgan is the only one with the skills to save it.

June Alvarez is the town’s blunt, tattooed mechanic. She has kept the orchard’s ancient equipment alive for a decade with duct tape, stubbornness, and hands that can fix anything. She fully expects Morgan to sell the place out from under her—another polished outsider cashing in on something she doesn’t understand.

Their fights are loud. Their chemistry is louder. With a failing cider press, a shared farmhouse, and a festival deadline neither woman can ignore, saving the orchard means learning to work together. Somewhere between a borrowed flannel and the life Morgan thought she had outgrown, she stops running—and June stops bracing for the person she wants most to leave.

Book details

Author: Aurora North
Genre: Sapphic contemporary romance
Pairing: FF
Setting: A family orchard in Bellwether, New York, during the fall festival season
Tropes: Enemies to lovers, forced proximity, small-town return, blue collar meets white collar, slow burn, praise kink, found family
Ending: Happily ever after