Where the Roots Run Deep - Daniela Thorne

Clara Ashford wakes on her wedding morning to scones, a snoring basset hound, and a secret she and Liam are keeping close - a second pregnancy, carried quietly, like a candle shielded from the wind. The wedding is everything she dreamed: roses on the arch, asters along the walls, and Vivienne Beaumont presiding over it all with her sharp wit and transcendent scones. But three days later, the woman who has been Clara's anchor since she first arrived in Laurel Hollow begins to fade - and Clara must learn what it means to hold someone else steady while her whole world shifts.

When a prestigious research opportunity pulls Liam toward Boston, Clara and Liam face their first true test as a married couple: not whether they love each other, but whether love is enough to build a life on - and what, exactly, that life should look like. The answer takes them farther from Laurel Hollow than either expected, and brings them home by a road they never could have mapped.

Where the Roots Run Deep is a story about grief freely given, joy fiercely claimed, and the quiet, radical act of choosing - again and again - the people and the place that make you whole.