The Sweetest Harvest

"I'm starving, darling. I'm fucking starving for you."

Isla Rossi is twenty years old and already breaking.
To her father, she is an asset, a star athlete to be pushed until her knees buckle and her spirit snaps. In the "silent life" of the ridge, her pain is just another part of the harvest.

Julian Blackwood is thirty-eight and done watching.
As the neighbor who has seen Isla grow up in the shadow of her father's belt and her own injuries, he has spent years fighting a war against his own desire.
He is the family friend who should be a safe harbor, but his hunger has turned into an obsession.

When the harvest begins, the pretense ends.
Julian isn't just taking Isla away from her father's orchard;
he's claiming the woman he's been starving for his entire life.