Emma Rini has built her life between the shelves of her family’s bookstore, quietly avoiding risk, romance, and change. But when her parents assume she’ll inherit the shop without question, she decides it’s time for a different story, one where she learns to live like her literary idol, Emily Dickinson. Her plan? Isolation, reflection, and zero complications.
She rents a crumbling manor near Amherst to embrace spinster serenity. But solitude proves messy when bunnies destroy her garden, a grumpy architect insists on fixing everything, and an anonymous admirer starts sending her coded floral messages.
Somehow, retreating from the world has made it impossible to escape it. Now Emma must decide if real life, and real love, might be the greatest plot twist of all.
