USA Today Bestselling Houston Author Melanie Sweeney Launching Spicy Texas Hurricane Romance on Tuesday, 7/8

 WHERE YOU’RE PLANTED is largely inspired by the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Harvey

Event will be held at Blue Willow Bookshop on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 at 7 p.m

About WHERE YOU’RE PLANTED:

Single mom Tansy Perkins only has room in her life for her daughter, her library, and maybe the next book to add to her collection. But after a catastrophic hurricane severely damages her library, she’s forced to temporarily move her branch into the adjacent county botanic gardens, where Jack Reid—the world’s grouchiest gardener who rescued her and her daughter from the flood—happens to be the assistant director.

Jack has always preferred plants over people, having built a strong track record of avoiding relationships ever since his divorce six years earlier. So Tansy and her quirky band of bookish colleagues’ encroachment into his carefully-kept territory is a little more than irksome, especially when it means sharing his already-scarce resources.

When Jack and Tansy are tasked with working together on the spring festival, they have no choice but to call a truce. And soon their newfound professional partnership gives way to a deep intimacy that they’ve both been silently craving. But Tansy has lost too much to risk her heart, and Jack has sworn off real love. When an opportunity arises for funding that both the library and gardens need, will their loyalties lie with the futures they’d always planned for, or with the new spark they’ve found in each other?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 

Melanie Sweeney is the USA Today bestselling author of Take Me Home. She writes contemporary romance in which ordinary people find extraordinary love, and she lives near Houston, Texas, with her husband, three kids, and too many cats. When she’s not writing, she’s figure skating, embroidering, or playing her ukulele.