The Widow's Groundskeeper

Three weeks after her husband's funeral, Libby Marlowe moves into her grandmother's house on the Maine coast to be alone. Owen Fairchild has kept the grounds for eighteen years. He is fifty-seven, unhurried, and has no intention of being anyone's fresh start. They fight about hydrangeas. They fix a fence. She bakes too much bread and leaves it on his porch. The town watches, and one person in particular does not approve. By the harvest fair, Libby has decided something, and Owen has decided the same thing, and neither of them says it out loud. A slow, quiet, age gap small-town romance about a widow, a groundskeeper, and the long ordinary work of being chosen.