The Trouble with Tulips
(2020)(The first book in the Hometown Holiday Heartstrings series)
A novel by Emily Dana Botrous
He’s her brother's grumpy best friend. She’s the one he never noticed…until one request changes everything.
Kim Williams needs a new start with a fresh horizon. She also needs a green thumb to help make her mom’s entry into the local yard garden competition a reality. Too bad the only landscaper in her small town is her brother’s prickly best friend—the one she’s secretly liked for years.
The only thing Jake Dunn can keep alive is a plant. Besides his friend Dusty, he has no use for anyone, including God. He just wants to be left alone. When Dusty’s sister asks him for help, he turns her down flat—until he needs her marketing expertise.
Tulips for business tips. Fair trade, right? Wrong. Jake can give Kim a garden. But she wants more. Too bad the walls Jake has cultivated around his heart from losses of the past are too thick to break down.
If keeping people out isn’t the only way to keep them safe…what is? Jake might not have enough time to figure that out.
The Hometown Holiday Heartstrings series is a contemporary, small-town romance series that weaves gentle faith throughout each story. Each title can be read as a standalone but the series is best enjoyed read in order.
Genre: Romance
Kim Williams needs a new start with a fresh horizon. She also needs a green thumb to help make her mom’s entry into the local yard garden competition a reality. Too bad the only landscaper in her small town is her brother’s prickly best friend—the one she’s secretly liked for years.
The only thing Jake Dunn can keep alive is a plant. Besides his friend Dusty, he has no use for anyone, including God. He just wants to be left alone. When Dusty’s sister asks him for help, he turns her down flat—until he needs her marketing expertise.
Tulips for business tips. Fair trade, right? Wrong. Jake can give Kim a garden. But she wants more. Too bad the walls Jake has cultivated around his heart from losses of the past are too thick to break down.
If keeping people out isn’t the only way to keep them safe…what is? Jake might not have enough time to figure that out.
The Hometown Holiday Heartstrings series is a contemporary, small-town romance series that weaves gentle faith throughout each story. Each title can be read as a standalone but the series is best enjoyed read in order.
Genre: Romance
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