The Sugarhouse Deal
A Vermont F/F Romance

About this book:

Dr. Maya Lin has a spreadsheet for everything—optimal tap depth, vacuum pressure curves, ROI on evaporator upgrades. What she doesn't have is a plan for Nora Miller: fifth-generation sugarmaker, guardian of a ninety-four-year-old maple, and the most stubborn woman in Vermont. When Verdant Harvest sends Maya to audit Nora's struggling sugarbush, she expects resistance. She doesn't expect to be knee-deep in mud before dawn, splicing frozen vacuum lines with grease-stained fingers, or the way Nora's dry grin makes her forget the difference between data and desire.

Nora doesn't need a city consultant telling her how to run the farm her great-grandfather built. She needs the bank off her back and the sap to run sweet. But as the season shifts from icy nights to mud-season chaos, Maya's precision starts looking less like interference and more like salvation—and Nora's rooted wisdom becomes the only thing grounding Maya's restless ambition. Between boiler breakdowns, budget crises, and the relentless rhythm of the boil, professional boundaries dissolve into something far more dangerous: trust.

Set against the steam and smoke of an authentic Vermont sugaring season, *The Sugarhouse Deal* is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance where two women who speak entirely different languages—science and instinct, spreadsheets and scarred bark—discover they're both fluent in the same thing: the quiet, terrifying work of building something that lasts.