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When the county threatens to slash Cedar Hollow Public Library's budget by thirty-seven percent, head librarian Clara Bennett has eight months to prove her library's worth - or lose everything she's spent fifteen years building.
Then Leo Morales walks in on a Tuesday, holding the door half-open like he hasn't yet decided to stay. A widower carrying a grief he doesn't talk about, he arrives with his six-year-old daughter Ruby, who immediately declares the seed library hers and starts reorganizing it with color-coded crayon charts.
Clara wasn't looking for this. Leo definitely wasn't ready for it. But between a box of mystery seeds left by the house's previous owner, workshops that slowly fill the town with something like hope, and a little girl who understands patience better than most adults - something quietly begins to grow.
A small-town romance about second chances, fighting for the things that matter, and the particular courage it takes to plant something when you don't know what it will become.
š Book One of the Cedar Hollow Series