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WICKED KISS
Rowan Evans has spent his entire life avoiding one thing: responsibility that isn't his own.
He runs a successful bookstore in his hometown, helps out on his family's farm when needed, and enjoys the freedom of knowing his future belongs entirely to him.
Then a letter arrives.
Elderly landowner Robert Stance wants Rowan to inherit his six-hundred-acre estate.
The terms are simple.
Take over the farm and pay half its value.
Or refuse it and walk away forever.
With a legal assessment scheduled before a final decision is made, law intern Lorelai Thompson is assigned to spend a week at the estate. Her mission? Convince Rowan that Robert's life work deserves a future.
What nobody anticipated was the chemistry between them.
Lorelai is optimistic, impulsive, and impossible to ignore.
Rowan is guarded, practical, and determined not to make decisions based on emotions.
But as they spend more time together-working alongside farmers, helping with livestock, sharing family stories, and navigating increasingly awkward moments-the line between professional and personal begins to blur.
With the future of the estate hanging in the balance, Rowan must decide what matters more: the life he's carefully built, or the one waiting for him beyond the fields.
And Lorelai must learn that sometimes the hardest cases aren't won in court.
Sometimes they're won by the heart.
A slow-burn small-town romance filled with family legacy, farm life, emotional tension, and a love story that begins where responsibility ends.