Blossoms In December

🌸 Blossoms in December 🌸

🖋️ A Winter Romance by [Author Name]

📍 Setting: Cotswolds, England – Present Day

💔 Genre: Contemporary Romance / Later-in-Life Love

❄️ Themes: Grief • Hope • Unexpected Joy • Quiet Second Chances

🕯️ Annabelle Quinn

Widowed at 62, Annabelle spends her days tending her late husband’s beloved winter garden, running the village bookshop, and pretending she’s content with the stillness. Everyone tells her she had a “good love” and that should be enough.

But something inside her whispers: you’re not finished yet.

🪻 Thomas Everly

A retired history teacher and reluctant newcomer to the Cotswolds, Thomas has no intention of starting over. He’s quiet, kind, and fiercely private—until a misdelivered package brings him face-to-face with Annabelle and the forgotten garden she’s trying to save.

She offers him tea.

He offers to fix her greenhouse heater.

Neither of them expects anything more.

But something small begins to bloom.

🌬️ When the World Says You’re Too Late—Bloom Anyway

Over shared stories, frostbitten hands, and garden journals filled with memories, they slowly come back to life. Together, they rediscover:

• 📚 Poetry that speaks louder in winter

• 🌸 Snowdrops peeking through frozen soil

• ☕ Quiet moments by the fire that say more than words ever could

But as the village prepares for its Christmas festival, old wounds resurface—and Annabelle must decide if she can truly open her heart again… when part of it still belongs to someone she lost.

💫 Love doesn't always arrive in spring.

❄️ Sometimes, it blossoms in December.

📖 Read the heartwarming first chapter of Blossoms in December now at TheFirstChapter.shop

🔗 For readers who believe love has no expiration date—and that the softest stories often bloom in the coldest seasons.