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Maya Lin has spent ten years putting distance between herself and Verdant Creek. Now, after inheriting her grandmother’s beloved Glasshouse, the brilliant but anxious botanist is back with one impossible mission: save the greenhouse before $42,000 in back taxes sends it to auction.
Her plan is simple. Win the town’s prestigious $50,000 Midsummer Floral Festival with her extraordinary new orchid and save the family legacy.
Then the heatwave hits.
When the Glasshouse’s ancient cooling system catastrophically fails, Maya discovers there is only one man in town capable of bringing it back to life.
Cole Bennett.
Her former high school sweetheart.
The boy who broke her heart.
And the last man she should be trapped with for three weeks in a sweltering basement.
Cole has built a comfortable life as the town’s beloved HVAC technician, but beneath his easygoing exterior is a brilliant mechanical mind and ambitions far bigger than anyone realizes. He has no intention of reopening old wounds or falling for Maya a second time.
Unfortunately, neither of them can ignore the chemistry that never really disappeared.
As they work side by side to keep the Glasshouse alive, old resentment gives way to teasing banter, stolen glances, and a second chance neither of them saw coming. But when the truth about the night they broke up finally comes to light, they discover they didn't stop loving each other.
They simply let a lie steal ten years from them.
Just when Maya and Cole finally find their way back to each other, a wealthy European collector offers Maya the career of her dreams: prestige, limitless funding, and a future far beyond Verdant Creek.
And Cole, convinced he could never be enough for the woman he loves, makes the most painful choice of all.
He lets her go.
Now Maya has to decide what she truly wants: the extraordinary future she once dreamed of or the man and the home she never stopped loving.
Because sometimes the life you're afraid will hold you back...
is the very life that finally helps you bloom.
A heartwarming small-town second-chance romance filled with forced proximity, undeniable chemistry, emotional healing, blue-collar brilliance, and a happily-ever-after worth fighting for.
