When Love Took Root

When Georgia Hart drives back through the tree-lined roads of her childhood hometown, the golden leaves whisper a truth she's not ready to face. Everything looks the same, and yet nothing is.

Once a bright-eyed kindergarten teacher, Georgia returns home searching for something steady after a season of loss and restlessness. What she doesn't expect to find is Richard Ellis, the quiet boy she grew up with. He's older now, broader in the shoulders, and still carrying that easy, disarming charm she never quite forgot.

Years ago, their friendship had always skirted the edges of something more with glances that lingered too long, conversations that felt like secrets. But life moved forward, pulling them in different directions. Now, with her father's recent death the family's orchard needs tending, her mother urging her to stay and help. Now Georgia finds herself working alongside Richard once more.

Between the hum of bees and the scent of ripe apples, old feelings stir like leaves in the wind. Richard's teasing smile hides a tenderness he can't quite name and Georgia's heart begins to thaw beneath the warmth of his handsome features and steady devotion.

As autumn deepens, the two must decide if what they once left behind was just youthful affection... or the beginning of a love that never really ended.

A story of coming home, healing, and rediscovering grace. "Where Love Took Root" is a tender, slow-blooming romance reminding us that sometimes the heart doesn't move on... it waits.