Salt Air and Peppery Blooms (The Women of Blue Harbor Book 3)

Reese Callahan doesn’t do ‘soft.’ A high-strung chef with a failing vision and a history of Chicago-style burnout, she views her kitchen as a fortress of precision. Flowers? They’re uncontrollable variables that have no place in her sterile, stone-cold world. But when local critics demand her menu show some ‘soul,’ Reese is forced into an unlikely partnership with the one woman who embodies everything she’s been avoiding.

Nora Wells is the heartbeat of the Blue Harbor farmers market--a free-spirited florist who paints the world in petals and peppery blooms. She’s warm, artistic, and tired of being treated like a temporary seasonal option. When Reese’s rigid perfectionism clashes with Nora’s organic chaos, the kitchen heat isn’t the only thing rising.

As the two are forced into proximity, the barriers Reese built to protect her pride begin to crumble. But when a shadow from Reese’s past threatens to pull her back into the obsessive cycle that broke her, she must decide: will she retreat to the safety of her stopwatch, or can she finally learn to stay?

In Blue Harbor, every love story begins with a reason to stay. Will Reese find hers among the salt air and peppery blooms?

Salt Air and Peppery Blooms is a delicious, slow-burn lesbian romance featuring the popular grumpy-vs-sunshine and enemies-to-lovers tropes. It is Book 3 in The Women of Blue Harbor series but can be read as a standalone.