Chapter 5

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Two years after losing her husband, Greenwich widow Diana Ashby hires a quietly brilliant young estate manager to hold her household together, never expecting that his steady competence and careful honesty would slowly undo the rules she wrote to keep herself safe from wanting anything again. As the seasons turn across a Connecticut garden he plants and tends with patient foresight, Diana and Callum fall into an intimacy neither of them planned for, one built on consent, candor, and an unwavering devotion to her two young daughters. By the time the foxgloves he planted in winter finally bloom, Diana must decide whether the terms she once used to protect her grief can be rewritten into terms for a life, and a love, she is finally ready to choose.

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