The Garden Within

THE GARDEN WITHINby Kosuke Onishi, Esq. When inheriting a garden means inheriting a second chance at life... Maya Chen built the perfect life in Boston-corner office, designer apartment, impressive title. She also built walls so high, she forgot what it felt like to truly live. Then a letter arrives that changes everything. Her estranged grandmother has died, leaving Maya a sprawling Victorian estate and three acres of breathtaking gardens.
The catch? She must stay for one full year or lose it all. For a woman who's spent a decade running from her past, it's the last place she wants to be. But Thorngate Gardens holds more than painful memories. It holds Nathan Rivers-the enigmatic gardener who tends the property with quiet devotion and sees straight through Maya's polished armor. As he teaches her the language of roots and blooms, Maya discovers that gardens grow more than flowers.
They grow courage. Connection. Second chances. When a ruthless developer threatens everything her grandmother built, Maya must choose: return to her safe, lonely life in the city, or fight for a future she never knew she wanted. A future that includes dirt under her nails, community in her heart, and a love deep enough to finally put down roots. Sometimes the life you're meant to live is the one you left behind.
A contemporary romance about healing, legacy, and discovering that the most beautiful transformations happen slowly-one season at a time.