Secretly Yours

A seductive new romantic comedy about a sultry professor and his gregarious neighbor that he always fights with, written by Tessa Bailey, a popular TikTok user and #1 New York Times bestselling author.

At fourteen, Hallie Welch had a deep romantic crush on Julian Vos when they almost shared a kiss in the shadowy vines of his family's winery. The beauty who went missing has now returned to their little village. Hallie worries whether she'll receive that kiss after being recruited to redesign the Vos estate's gardens. The sour professor, however, isn't the youth she recalls, and their diametrically opposed personalities collide violently. After a wild ladies' night out, Hallie can't get rid of the feeling that she done something careless. Then, she recalls the drunken letter she sent to Julian, a hidden lover. Aw sh*t.

While on leave from his elite league job, Julian intends to write a book. The best diversion, however, comes from having Hallie tend to his plants just outside his window. He can't take his eyes off her gorgeousness; she's erratic, incessantly late, and sometimes coated in filth. till he comes upon an unidentified letter that a former girlfriend wrote him. Julian is drawn further into Hallie's sphere of influence even as he questions about this admirer. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian's gray-scale life. Her cheery wild energy makes little sense for a guy who operates on strict schedules and irons his socks. But something about her seems so familiar, and her mere existence is upending his whole reality.