Ivy Bauer is a young, bright environmental scientist, PhD candidate, and inventor of a game-changing organic irrigation system. She’s on top of the world when, suddenly, her husband is killed in a biking accident. Needing space to grieve, she takes a job as temporary gardener on the Malibu estate of television producer Conrad Reed, an almost has-been who is reeling after the death of his young wife and overwhelmed by the care of his anxious stepson Hudson, a massive estate and declining career.

Enter Ivy,  who—Conrad hopes—will help take at least one thing off his plate.  But when she starts cutting back his late wife’s prized rose bushes to plant indigenous grasses, sparks fly between these two driven people—and not the good kind of sparks.

It’s only when Ivy finds the key to Hudson’s heart that Conrad’s own heart begins to melt as well. . . and then the sparks that fly are the ones that kindle the best kind of love affair. 

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