The Last Crush

The gravel gave a different sound than she remembered. Fourteen years after Camille Whitley fled her family's vineyard estate in a rainstorm of tears and broken promises, she is back, and everything has changed except the stakes. The Whitley vines are failing. Adelaide and Margot, her sisters, have held the estate together with bare hands and borrowed time. A ruthless developer named Sterling Crane is circling the property with contracts and lawyers. And at the end of the lane stands Dominic Voss, the boy next door who became the man she ran from, still keeping secrets about the night she left. As the autumn crush, the last the family may ever see, unfolds, Camille must learn the estate again from the soil up. She leans on Elias, the weathered manager who remembers every harvest she's missed, and trades late-night texts with Vivienne, her sharp-tongued chef friend in New York, for courage she cannot quite summon alone. When an old storm finally breaks and Sterling makes his move, every buried wound resurfaces at once. To save the Whitley legacy, Camille must choose between the safety of escape and the terrifying vulnerability of staying, to forgive her sisters, to trust Dominic with the secret she has carried since she was seventeen, and to harvest one more season in the only home her heart has ever known.