Tess Williams had a simple plan: come home, plant gardens, avoid drama.
After law school didn't work out (who needs lawsuits when you have lawns?), Tess found her calling in making beautiful things grow. Even if those things occasionally fight back.
The Hawthorne estate should be a straightforward job: ten acres of neglected gardens, one fountain that's forgotten how to fountain, and a greenhouse with opinions about geometry. The new owner just wants everything perfect by his thirtieth birthday, which seemed reasonable until the estate started revealing things that were meant to stay hidden.
Now Tess is juggling aggressive greenery, a client who treats planting like there'll be a quiz later, and a local reporter convinced that alliteration sells papers. Add in a stone artist who believes 'close enough' is a personal insult and the town's entire population of gossips (so... basically everyone), and Tess is beginning to think she should have read the fine print.
In a small Connecticut town where everybody knows everybody's business, the real mystery is how anyone thought secrets this big would never surface.