After Harvest Comes — Lauren M. Phelps

The small Missouri vineyard is everything Lilli Stewart had ever dreamed of, and now it is hers -- all hers. But so are the debts. Now that her flighty cousin has run off and eloped, Lilli doesn't know how she can last the season. The wages from her second job -- at the Sulfur Springs shoe factory -- are hardly enough to pay her bills, and one bank has already rejected her loan application. When she walks into Chance McAllister's office at Sulfur Springs' only other bank, she is at the end of her rope. He is, literally her last chance.

Chance has already been instructed by his boss to turn Lilli down, but when he meets her, he is impressed by her intelligence and perseverance…and enchanted by her spirit. Unbeknownst to Lilli, he pulls a few strings to get her the money she needs. The more Lilli sees of the handsome Chance, the more she likes him. But then she starts hearing the town gossip about them, and it fills her with doubt. Could the rumors be true? Will Chance snatch his heart away one harvest is over?