Thirst For Me (Orchard Cove Book 1)

When sunshine meets grumpy in a sun-soaked small town, someone's going to get burned—and it might just be both of them.

Orchard Cove was supposed to be a fresh start. A waterfront location for her struggling smoothie business, a quiet summer to heal, and absolutely zero complications. What she gets instead is Mason Grant: brooding, broad-shouldered, and completely convinced her shop belongs to his family. He's the kind of gorgeous that makes a person furious, and he seems determined to make her summer as difficult as possible.

Mason doesn't want a fight. He wants his family's property back. What he doesn't want is to notice how her laugh lights up the whole street, or how every argument between them crackles with something that has nothing to do with property disputes. He's still carrying grief he hasn't let himself put down, and the last thing he needs is a sunshine-soaked woman breaking through the walls he's spent years building.

But Orchard Cove is a small town with a long summer, and the two of them keep colliding—in his bar, on the waterfront, in moments that feel dangerously close to something real. Their banter is electric, their tension is undeniable, and a summer fling seems like the worst possible idea for two people with wounds that haven't healed yet.

The question is: what happens when the thing that started as a rivalry starts to feel like the only thing keeping either of them whole?