Florist Lily Thornton has built a beautiful life-and a carefully guarded heart-since her broken engagement three years ago. When brooding architect Ethan Caldwell commissions her for the most ambitious project of her career, restoring Ashford's grandest historic hotel, she finds herself drawn to a man who builds beautiful things and tends them with the same devotion she brings to flowers. But when a revelation connects Ethan to her past heartbreak, Lily must decide whether the walls she's built are protection-or just thorns keeping something extraordinary out. A story of restoration, resilience, and a love that grows where you least expect it.