Learning To Bloom

Brooklyn Wagner thrives on structure. She lives comfortably in a world of plans and schedules. But her neatly organized world is turned upside down when her best friend sits her down and mercilessly informs her that she's become something of a heartless machine and is in need of a little soul TLC. To do this, she has to start in the place she lost it; her hometown. What she doesn't expect to find is Henry Nichols.

Henry Nichols is, in a word, easy-going. He believes a day without a good belly laugh is a day wasted and he never passes up a homemade baked good. But, as a widowed father, he's closed a part of himself off, resigned to live a life of partials and halves. Until he meets Brooklyn Wagner. She amuses him in the same way he infuriates her. He can't understand why she gets under his skin the same way she can't understand why he pushes her to her seams.
Somehow, together, they'll learn how to bloom.

"This is the recipe of life
Said my mother
As she held me in her arms as I wept
Think of those flowers you plant
In the garden each year
They will teach you
That people too
Must wilt
Fall
Root
Rise
In order to bloom"

-Rupi Kaur