Must Love Flowers is a warm, emotionally rich novel about second chances, unexpected friendship, and the families we create for ourselves.

Joan Sample never imagined life as a widowed empty-nester, spending birthdays alone and hiding from the world. Pushed gently by her sister, she begins to step back into life: hiring a landscaper to tame her wild garden, joining a grief support group, and opening her home to a renter.

Across town, Maggie Herbert juggles early-morning shifts as a barista with demanding nursing classes. At home she faces her father’s alcoholism, unstable moods, and mounting bills. When she finds a room for rent in Joan’s house, she discovers a haven she didn’t know she needed.

As Joan and Maggie build a tentative friendship, both women find themselves drawn toward new possibilities—Maggie to a regular customer at the café, Joan to the reserved gardener who brings new life to her yard and may be nursing sorrows of his own.

Together they navigate grief, responsibility, and desire for change, slowly learning that healing often comes through connection and that found family can be the strongest kind of love.

• Contemporary women’s fiction with romantic threads
• Themes of grief, resilience, and starting over
• Appeals to readers who enjoy heartfelt, hopeful stories about everyday lives

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