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NETGALLEY/READ NOW/ The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn A Novel by Valerie Bowman/Pub Date Sep 09 2025 | Archive Date Nov 04 2025

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Pub Date Sep 09 2025 | Archive Date Nov 04 2025
General Fiction (Adult) | Romance  
 

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Description

For fans of the Lovelight series and The Pumpkin Spice Café, this cozy and sexy romance follows a young event planner who returns to her family’s inn on an apple orchard to help run their Harvest Festival—only to find herself butting heads with the handsome son of the apple orchard’s owners. 

Ellie Lawson’s city life was treating her just fine until a sour turn of events knocks her out in one fell swoop. Dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her event planning job, she is left with no choice but to return to her parents’ idyllic inn, nestled within a picturesque Honeycrisp orchard on Long Island. Anticipating a quiet hiatus in the attic apartment, she is instead met with Aiden, the stubborn, attractive son of the orchard owner who is currently occupying her planned refuge.

Forced together by circumstance, they find themselves not only roommates but also coworkers, when they’re put in charge by their parents of the orchard’s vital Harvest Festival, a lifeline for both the struggling orchard and the inn. Amidst the enchanting disorder of small-town life, Ellie and Aiden grapple with their conflicting values, burgeoning feelings, and an electrifying tension.

As Ellie discovers the unexpected charm of the life she left behind and Aiden learns there’s much more to Ellie than he’d first assumed, one fact remains: the future of the orchard and the inn depends on their unlikely collaboration.

Embark on a captivating journey of rediscovery, love, and the irreplaceable magic of small-town life.


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ISBN 9780063454033
PRICE $18.99 (USD)
PAGES 272

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MY 5 STAR REVIEW- CUTE AND DELICIOUS  
Eleanor Lawson aka Ellie as known in her hometown is having a bad day ! Scratch that, she's having a bad week !  Her pompous jerk of a boyfriend Geoff, STOLE her ideas for a project that she's been working on for MONTHS !!! Add to that Steve Gibbons, her boss is also a jerk and says that SHE stole Geoff's work and then fires her !! Now, since she has been living with her now ex-boyfriend, she has nowhere to live !!! Talk about a Triple Threat ! I hope that she finds someway to get revenge on those two and it looks like her Italian best friend, Maria Agostini, is all in on that !  , Geoff was a loser ! 
Ellie really can help the Inn. After all, she's been a brilliant event planner for 7 years ! Not if only Aiden would get on board with her, His sister is not like her grouchy brother. Charlotte is all sunshine and co-operation and has some good ideas of her own. She also has a long standing crush on Sawyer, a farm hand. And the cranky brew-master, Jesse, who is tinkering with new brews has some great ideas too. 
I loved all the characters in this book, especially Ellie who is like a Human Tornado when she gets ideas that she MUST get into operation. She knows her stuff and how to wait people out until they agree. 7 years experience, remember?  I can't forget Pumpkin the Pug! Hilarious !! Or the goat that knocks Ellie into the mud on her first day home at the Inn. Butts her right in the butt and she goes right down.  I grew up in a small town, where everyone knew your business. So, I totally got the good and bad of that. The author nailed it !!!
Ellie is a bit of a slob compared to organized Aiden. But her ideas are TOTALLY organized as is her great contacts. Aiden is a man that she grew up with before she ran off to the big city, according to him. He's hurt and takes it out on her for a while. But he slips and says that he thinks that she's Hot ! She's beginning to feel the same, that Aiden is HOT. They get to the point where they actually tell each other !  And they kiss !! It's not all going to be easy though. And I like how the story ends.  Autumn is one of my favorite seasons of the year. It was great to revisit it !
Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book ! 

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