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Author: Melanie Sweeney

Narrators: Brittany Pressley and Christian Fox

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Tansy is a single mom, who loves her adorable girl and her job as a librarian. All is well until a hurricane hits and the floods damage her library and her home. The library is forced to ‘temporarily’ relocate to the adjacent botanical gardens to the horror of its director, Jack Reid. What do you mean there will be children running around? Yoga classes? Birds? Hell, no! 

When Tansy and her band of quirky book loving people descend, bringing Tansy’s little girl in tow, Jack is not happy. He doesn’t ‘people’, especially with little humans. But Tansy and Briar soon worm their way into his gardens and his heart. 

I love the way Melanie crafts her stories! Tansy is a woman who has a hard time accepting help in any way, shape or form and who finds herself basically homeless and maybe jobless. The relationship that organically develops between Tansy and Jack is poignant and makes you want to root for both of them.

I particularly like books about book people and I was rooting for the library, the gardens and for the librarian and the gardener to merge! 

I had an ARC but I waited for the audiobook for reasons of Brittany Pressley and Christian Fox. Brittany’s performance is brilliant, especially voicing Briar. Christian’s mellow, warm voice is perfectly matched to the deceivingly closed off Jack, who’s just hiding deep truths and has a lot of love to give. The audiobook is a must! 

If you love stories about people finding love amidst adversity, meet cutes that are totally unexpected and true ‘found family’ vibes, don’t pass this up! 

Content notes: PTSD after a hurricane, dealing with the aftermath of a natural disaster, infertility, divorce, financial insecurity