The Garden We Planted Slowly, Like the Love We Chose

When Maya inherits a derelict city garden, she also inherits its enigmatic caretaker, Liam. Both are fragile, both are hiding from their pasts, and both are convinced they are unworthy of love. Their reluctant partnership to revive the garden becomes a quiet, tender metaphor for the slow, deliberate work of healing and learning to trust again. But when the city threatens to pave over their sanctuary, they must confront whether the roots they've laid down together are strong enough to withstand the storm—or if their carefully chosen love will be plowed under before it has a chance to truly bloom.