She goes and works for Roz Harper in her home and takes over as manager running her 'In the Garden' nursery that is onsite. She wants to settle down in a new place that doesn't remind her of her former live and give her boys something strong to latch onto. The book moves on a few years later, and Stella has relocated to Tennessee to be near her father and her stepmother. When an accident occurs leaving Stella widowed she honestly doesn't know what she's going to do. When the book begins we have Stella enjoying her life with her husband Kevin and their two boys who she loves, but who drive her up the wall at times. I actually enjoyed how Roberts sets this book up. 'Blue Dahlia' is the first book in the series and follows single mother and widow Stella. We have some romance and some characters that I actually enjoyed enough to revisit through three books. I love gardening and the outdoors so this series was always fun to me. After trying to start the inn series by Nora Roberts, I ended up seeing so many similarities to 'In the Garden' that I happily DNFed the first book in the inn series and decided to re-read this one. Nothing really to say except that I love this series. Genre: contemporary romance with a little paranormal. Setting: mostly 2004 Memphis, Tennessee, with some back stories from 18. Number of sex scenes: two briefly described. Swearing language: strong including religious swear words, but rarely used. Unabridged audiobook length: 10 hrs and 46 mins. He started, but the book ended before he worked on it. They hired someone to go through old records to discover the story behind the ghost. The plot surrounding the ghost was not well developed and not finished. The sex scenes didn’t do anything for me.

Logan is creative and artistic with his landscaping but appears disorganized in other things.

Stella likes to organize and manage things. Characters did not interest or intrigue me. A lot of conversation about ordinary things. Characters were nice people but not compelling enough for a story.

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