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Late Bloomer

by Mazey Eddings

A fresh start at Thistle and Bloom

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A fresh start at Thistle and Bloom

After a lottery win leaves Opal Devlin struggling to set boundaries, she puts much of her money into a failing flower farm in Asheville and plans to build a painting business there. Her attempt at solitude is upended by Pepper Boden, who claims the farm as her own. Their uneasy cohabitation brings together two competing claims to the property and two different hopes for what comes next. The setup joins a romantic-comedy pairing with questions of self-protection, generosity, and making a place for personal ambitions. Flowers, painting, and the shared farm give the romance a distinctly rooted setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Romantic-comedy readers interested in a sapphic, opposites-attract pairing.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving flower farms, painting, and a shared-living arrangement.
  • Those interested in romance plots that include boundary-setting and pursuing personal dreams.

Themes

Boundaries and self-protectionGenerosityPersonal ambitionHome and belonging

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Book overview

A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice!

Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she'd earned minimum wage and even less respect, she's bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can't seem to stop saying yes.

With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides to protect herself by any means necessary, which to her translates to putting almost all her new money to buying a failing flower farm in Asheville, North Carolina to let the flowers live out their plant destiny while she uses the cabin on the property to start her painting business.

But her plans for isolation and self-preservation go hopelessly awry when an angry (albeit gorgeous) Pepper Boden is waiting for her at her new farm. Pepper states she's the rightful owner of Thistle and Bloom Farms, and isn't moving out. The unlikely pair strike up an agreement of co-habitation, and butt heads at every turn. Can these opposites both live out their dreams and plant roots? Or will their combustible arguing (and growing attraction) burn the whole place down?

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