The Bloom Run

Four hundred and eight hives. Fifteen hundred miles. One February to get them all to the California almond bloom alive.

Lettie runs her late father's migratory beekeeping outfit on frost-silvered mornings and not enough sleep. When the cold snap drains three hives before dawn on loading day, she knows the margin is gone. One failed pollination contract could take the business, the family land, and everything Daddy built. The last thing she can afford is a driver she doesn't trust.

Cormac drives the load. He is steady, closed-mouthed, and used to hauling freight that doesn't talk back. Hauling living cargo across the South and the Southwest, through ice at Fort Stockton, a night shift at the Arizona border inspection and the long dark climb over Tehachapi, means learning to work as a team. Lettie has never let anyone else carry what she carries.

THE BLOOM RUN is a slow-burn contemporary romance about trust, grief, and two stubborn people who learn that the road is easier with a partner than cargo. It has small-business stakes, a ticking clock, a cross-country road trip, and a love story that builds one mile at a time.

If you love workplace-adjacent romance with real jobs, real weather, and real heart, this one is for you.