Wildflower by Mae Wood [Review]

Wildflower (Speakeasy) by Mae Wood
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: February 15, 2023

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Mae Wood
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

When the prize is love, sometimes you get stung. But if you’re lucky, you just might hit the sweet spot…

Juliana Burton needs a medal at Speakeasy's beer festival to push her brand-new brewery into the spotlight. She thinks she knows how to do it, too--with a beer made exclusively from Vermont hops, barley and the best honey in the state. Too bad the only thing standing in her way is a six feet tall, smokin’ sexy, and her secret high school crush.

After a very public disaster in Boston, Riggs Lyon is home with his teenage son in tow. Riggs is taking over the family beekeeping business with an eye to offload it and start life over somewhere where "Lyin' Lyon" isn't a joke. Selling honey to Juliana doesn't make business sense. She can't afford the high prices Lyon honey fetches in specialty shops and farmer's markets. But somehow, he’s having trouble saying no to anything she asks for, whether it’s in the hive or in the bedroom.

Thoughts on Wildflower: Oh, hey. We have a lady trying to establish her new brewery who is forced (by circumstances and pride) to work with her high school crush and who gets a leeeeeetle flustered when said crush is around and a man trying to rebuild himself after his ex blew his (and his son's) world apart. THINGS ARE COMPLICATED.

Just to complicate their potential relationship even more, their families have a history. As it turns out, that history needs to be smoothed over before Juliana and Riggs can be more than just secret bed buddies. Not that it's a secret-secret, really. Because this is a small town and people notice things.

Small town aside, these two have sparks. Not necessarily of the good type at first either. I mean, they were good on Juliana's side, for the most part, but she stuck her foot in her mouth in one of their first recent encounters and Riggs had to work his head around that. Which put the big guy in a mood for a while. Plus, with his goal being to get (eventually) clear out of town and start over again where no one knows what his ex did...well, you might see how that could be a complication.

Bees, a group of ladies determined to make their mark on the brewing world, a grumpy beekeeper, and a lot of baggage to unpack. Good stuff!