Stella: I'm a quiet person, I don't get mussed. Logan: Maybe you just need a little mussing. Stella: Everything else in life is perfectly ordered and categorized, so why do I find a chaotic manbeast like Logan so attractive? Logan: This woman works with *shudder* computers and actually *gag* files things! Why do I find her so hot? Stella: You won't sign your paperwork, Southern-fried man! Logan: You've ruined my haphazard organizing scheme, Yankee woman! Stella: I'm here for the position of manager. The Rub: It's really a damn shame when he starts to fall in love with that snooty Yankee woman, because she's very determined to keep everything in rank and file, and Logan knows that love is anything but obedient and quiet.ĭream Casting: Men in Trees' James Tupper. As landscaping designer for the successful In the Garden, he's always done things his way, and he can't figure out why his boss Roz wants to mess with that success by hiring a snooty Yankee woman to mess around with his ordered chaos. The Rub: If only the devastatingly studly landscaping designer Logan would just toe the line with her new way of organizing things! Oh, and a crazy-ass ghost might be haunting her kids. She's eager to start alphabetizing and organizing invoices and creating spreadsheets. A widow with two young boys, she moves to Tennessee to take over as manager of In the Garden, a plant and landscaping nursery run by wealthy Rosalind 'Roz' Harper.

He’s difficult but honest, brash but considerate-and undeniably sexy.The Chick: Stella Rothchild. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz Harper has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing In the Garden nursery.Īs Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and expectant mother Hayley and a fierce attraction to ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge.

She isn’t intimidated by Harper House-nor by its mistress. Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night… Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past in the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy.Ī Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis.

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