The Garden Gate Inn (COMING SOON)

Some things can't be renovated. They have to be restored.

When Evelyn Hart inherits a crumbling Victorian inn in the Vermont town she left behind, she arrives with a plan: fix it, sell it, and move on. What she doesn't plan for is the way the place gets under her skin — the overgrown garden with its stubborn roots, the rooms that remember what they used to be, the quiet rhythms of a town that never forgot her.

She doesn't plan for Graham Bennett, either.

Warm, unhurried, and rooted in Bellmere the way the old maples are rooted in its streets, Graham is everything Evelyn's carefully managed life has kept at a distance. As the inn slowly comes back to life around them, so does something in her — something she buried under years of ambition and loss and the habit of moving too fast to feel it.

In this richly felt novella, The Garden Gate Inn is a story about what we find when we stop running — and what's waiting for us when we finally come home.