Rare Blend: A Small Town, Grumpy/Sunshine, Dislike to Love Romance (Red Mountain Series Book 1)

When Marisa Castilla's life implodes in one spectacularly bad week—fired by her ex-boyfriend-slash-boss, evicted from her borrowed guest room, and suffocating under student loan debt—the last place she expects to land is a sleepy wine country town with a population that probably fits inside her old office building.

Red Mountain, Washington is nothing like the city career she'd mapped out for herself. Trading corporate ambitions for a reporter's byline at her estranged father's small-town newspaper is humbling enough. But fate, it seems, has a cruel sense of humor—because her new neighbor is Ethan Ledger, the infuriatingly handsome and relentlessly grumpy newly appointed CEO of Red Mountain's most celebrated winery.

He's all sharp edges and clipped sentences. She's sunshine and unstoppable optimism. He values his privacy. Her job requires asking questions he refuses to answer. And yet, the more their worlds collide—at the fence line, across town council meetings, and in the quiet spaces between professional disagreements—the harder it becomes to maintain the comfortable distance of mutual irritation.

Rare Blend is a slow-burn, multicultural small-town romance about two people who couldn't be more different discovering that the most unexpected places sometimes offer exactly what you didn't know you needed. Warm, witty, and deliciously tense, this is the first book in the Red Mountain Series—and it'll leave you immediately reaching for book two.