{"product_id":"the-lavender-bargain-posy-ashworth-9798191466934","title":"The Lavender Bargain: A Sweet Small-Town Romance with a Gentle Mystery","description":"She came home to fail quietly. The town had other plans.\u003cp\u003eJosie Marchetti has two hundred and eleven miles of apology in her mouth and ninety days from the bank in an envelope on the passenger seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer grandmother's lavender farm has been standing empty for two years. Forty acres, split down the middle, dying by the row. She'll cut what can be saved, sell what can't, and be back in Portland before anybody makes her a casserole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept the gate is chained shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept the man who chained it is the county surveyor, he owns the only road in, and he has a very good reason he isn't ready to explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept somebody has been sweeping a dead woman's floor for two years, and there's honey on the kitchen table with a label dated last month.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd somebody, every October since 1961, has been paid forty dollars - and nobody in this town will tell her what for.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElias Ford does not say much. He says even less about his mother. He has one thing left in the world that he can still choose, and he already knows what choosing it will cost him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween them: a missing deed, a shopkeeper who has never answered a direct question, a developer who is unfailingly polite, and a very large disreputable dog with no loyalty whatsoever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have until the twelfth of May.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lavender Bargain is Book One of the Bellhaven Bay Romances.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSweet, closed-door small-town romance with a gentle mystery, a nosy and well-meaning town, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after in every book. No spice. No cliffhangers on the romance. Grumpy sunshine, coming home, forced proximity - and absolutely no third-act breakup, because nobody has time for that.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Posy Ashworth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798191466934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Posy Ashworth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174505095423,"sku":"9798191466934","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c6a6b7f-54cf-4139-aacb-22ebea3812f9.jpg?v=1788959949","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lavender-bargain-posy-ashworth-9798191466934","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}