Restoring Fairhaven

Rebuilding Hearts

Who knew a bank robbery could show a girl that good guys still exist? Bookworm Bella Dwyer just wants to feel safe, especially after she's saved by a mysterious stranger during a bank robbery who made her believe there might be guys who live up to her fictional heroes. But when he proves impossible to find, she settles for a relationship with a commitment-phobic man instead. When Bella is offered a job on tiny Sparrow Island, she encounters Tim Franklin, the quiet budding landscape architect with Hemsworthy arms, who soon gets her wondering whether there really can be a future with a man who can't commit. Tim Franklin might have muscles for days, but a years-ago trauma has shaped him into shyness, along with keeping some pretty big secrets. When he meets the island’s new librarian he’s shocked to find himself bantering with this woman who brings him out of his shell. But his self doubt, along with questions over his future, mean he’s not sure what kind of future he can offer. In a leap of faith, Bella dumps her boyfriend, even before shy-guy Tim can make a move. But in wanting to live by faith and conquer fear, has she made the right choice, or are her hopes for freedom and a future destined to fail? Rebuilding Hearts is the fourth book in the Greener Gardens romance series, where true love grows.

Restoring Fairhaven

Opposites attract in this Beauty and the Beast-type story of tangled gardens, hopes and fears. Taking on her ailing father’s gardening business on Merriweather Island, Samantha Green only wants to escape her ex and to make her father proud. But Sam gets more than she bargained for when Greener Gardens accepts the job of restoring the gardens of a reclusive writer, Max Fairhaven, whose historical novels about romance and unrequited love litter bookstore shelves and movie marquees all over the world. Max much prefers the fictional world to the real, and the gardening girl’s interruptions means he’s driven from his writing cave far too often for his liking. How’s he supposed to craft stories with her distracting him all the time? Things change when he learns something of Sam’s family challenges, and his admiration slowly kindles. With his secretary’s goading, he’s forced to confront the past, while facing the fact that he needs to change in order to avoid a lonely future. Gentle pruning and a whole lot of banter forges a friendship between this not-so-Southern belle landscaper and the half-British author. But is their budding attraction enough to grow into a flourishing happily-ever-after? Restoring Fairhaven is the first book in the Greener Gardens romance series, where true love grows.

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