When pastry chef Tally returns to her family's daffodil farm, she's ready for a quiet spring to grieve her father and figure out her life—except a grumpy, annoyingly attractive farmhand has taken over the place (and her childhood bedroom!). Jesse is all business and zero charm, which should make them perfect enemies, but then Tally's salted honey cupcakes crack his gruff exterior in the most delicious way, and suddenly the spark between them is impossible to ignore. As spring turns to summer, these rivals discover that the line between love and hate might be thinner than they thought, but when the season changes, will what they've built together have roots deep enough to last?

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Warm spring mornings meeting electric tension—indie folk sweetness with sultry undertones. Think Noah Kahan's vulnerability, Phoebe Bridgers' ache, and Lord Huron's smoldering slow-burn. Acoustic guitars softening into sensual indie-pop. Cozy farm life igniting into passionate desire.