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Rooted in Love
By: Mother Melanin
Naomi Carter has spent twenty years caring for everyone except herself.
As a hardworking registered nurse in Chicago, she's survived endless double shifts, sleepless nights, and the emotional weight of a career spent helping others. Through it all, she's held onto one impossible dream:
A farm.
Not a mansion. Not luxury.
Just a peaceful piece of land where she can grow fresh fruits and vegetables, cultivate fields of flowers, make homemade jams and preserves, and create natural skincare products from ingredients she grew with her own hands.
It's a dream she never expected to afford.
Then a phone call changes everything.
A distant relative she barely remembers has passed away, leaving Naomi a fortune, a sprawling farm in rural Illinois, and one final gift that makes absolutely no sense:
A Farming System.
Suddenly, Naomi has the opportunity to build the life she's always wanted.
There's just one problem.
The farm isn't empty.
Living on the property are eleven-year-old twins Malik and Micah, along with their seven-year-old sister Zuri-three children who have been secretly surviving on their own after slipping through the cracks of the foster system.
Naomi only planned to inherit a farm.
She never expected to inherit a family.
With the help of a magical system, a small-town community, fields of lavender and sunflowers, mischievous goats, homemade skincare products, and three children determined to claim her heart, Naomi begins to discover that the most valuable things in life aren't found in bank accounts.
They're found in the roots we plant, the people we love, and the homes we build together.
Sometimes the greatest harvest isn't what grows from the soil.
It's what grows from love.