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 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 farmers markets. But somehow, he’s having trouble saying no to anything she asks for, whether it’s in the hive or in the bedroom.