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📖 Paperback Edition — She came for the honey. She stayed for the hands.

Riley Chen is a burned-out corporate lawyer who hasn’t slept through the night in months. After a panic attack on a client call forces her into medical leave, she books a farm-stay in Vermont because it looks peaceful on Instagram. She expects yoga and artisanal cheese plates. She does not expect 5 a.m. chores and a hot grumpy woman in Carhartts.

Maggie Hart runs a small sustainable dairy farm and honey operation with rough hands, a stubborn jaw, and the emotional availability of a fence post. She’s been alone since the last woman she loved called the farm “your real relationship” and left on a Tuesday in February. She’s not looking for another city girl who’ll treat her life like a cute detour.

But Riley keeps showing up. For the mornings. For the goats. For the honey that tastes like the land itself. And when Maggie’s hands close over hers during a milking lesson and neither of them pulls away, what starts as “we’ll keep this simple” becomes the most complicated, most honest, most devastating thing either of them has ever felt.

When the farm’s future is threatened by a developer’s offer and Riley’s old career comes calling with the promotion of a lifetime, they’ll have to decide: play it safe, or fight for the life they’re building — the land, the honey, and each other.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High Heat • FF (Sapphic) Farm Romance by Aurora North

Tropes: Age Gap • Grumpy/Sunshine • Forced Proximity • Small Town • Slow Burn • Body Worship • Praise Kink • Found Family • Competence Kink

A grumpy farmer, a sharp city woman, honey and cream used in ways the bees did not intend, and a guaranteed HEA.

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • 284 pages • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter, “After Hours.”

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes including food play and body worship), strong language, depictions of panic attacks and burnout, and themes of financial stress. Intended for readers 18+.

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