Her Younger Tenant

Harriet Nash has been careful for six years. Widowed at thirty-five, florist to a town that watches, she has built a life out of small decisions and a porch she does not share.\n\nTheo Reyes is twenty-four, a landscape architect with one truck, two duffels, and opinions about soil. He rents the cottage behind her shop. He is polite, talented, and entirely too calm about the seventeen years between them.\n\nShe gives him three rules. He breaks rule one on day two.\n\nThe town has thoughts. Her late husband's brother has more. And when Nashville calls with a partnership Theo would be a fool to turn down, Harriet tells him to take it, because she is forty-one years old and she is not going to be the reason anybody wastes anything.\n\nSix weeks later there is a truck on her street with no driver in it and a man on her porch with nowhere else to be.\n\nA Small Town Age Gap Opposites Attract Romance about geraniums, gossip, and the arithmetic of yes.