Early Praise for Where You're Planted

"Raw and romantic, crisp and surprising. Five gigantic stars."

Annabel Monaghanbestselling author of Summer Romance

"Raw, comforting, and devastatingly tender, Where You’re Planted is a gorgeous beating heart of a book."

Tarah DeWittUSA Today bestselling author of Savor It

"A beautiful testament to the importance of community. Plant me right next to this book so I can read it over and over again."

Jessica JoyceUSA Today bestselling author of The Ex Vows

"[A] heartfelt tale . . . with an authenticity that will resonate with readers. It’s a sweet treat."

Publishers Weekly

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Single mom Tansy Perkins only has room in her life for her daughter and 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 ago. 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 the new spark they’ve found with each other?

Out on July 8th, 2025

More praise for Where You’re Planted

“[A] heartfelt tale . . . with an authenticity that will resonate with readers. It’s a sweet treat.” — Publishers Weekly

“Where You’re Planted is a work of heart—raw and romantic, exploring every nuance of human frailty. Melanie Sweeney’s writing is crisp and surprising every time, and she has outdone herself here. Five gigantic stars.” — Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance

“I’m convinced Melanie Sweeney could hand me her grocery list and I’d happily devour it. Instead, she’s given us the gift of Where You’re Planted, which delivers so much adversaries-to-lovers perfection that I couldn’t put it down until I’d inhaled every single delicious word. Tansy and Jack were the perfect blend of stubborn, hot, and vulnerable, and the secondary cast of characters was a beautiful testament to the importance of community. Plant me right next to this book so I can read it over and over again.” — Jessica Joyce, USA Today bestselling author of The Ex Vows

“Raw, comforting, and devastatingly tender, Where You’re Planted is a gorgeous beating heart of a book. Wrapped inside this perfectly pitched adversaries to lovers story is a love letter to community and its power to both shape and rebuild us. Melanie manages to pack everything in here; poignance, humor, heat—my favorite kind of romance. She is undoubtedly one of my new favorite authors.” — Tarah DeWitt, USA Today bestselling author of Savor It

“Where You’re Planted is an instant classic! This book is everything I love about the romance genre. Two imperfect people who work together, who learn to lean on one another, who grow together. A beautiful ode to Houston and community and gardens and libraries and found families. I loved every page of Melanie’s brilliant prose, and can’t wait for what she does next!” — Naina Kumar, bestselling author of Say You’ll Be Mine

“Plants have never been sexier than in Melanie Sweeney’s sophomore romance Where You’re Planted, when sparks fly between a single mom librarian and a grumpy but hot-as-heck gardening nerd forced to work together in the aftermath of a hurricane. The slow burn of stubbornly independent Tansy and Jack reveling in their need for each other both physically and emotionally is a romance reader’s dream! Sweeney is two for two in getting under my skin with romances that both bring on the swoons and pull on my heartstrings in equal measure. I cannot wait to see what deliciousness she brings us next.” — Meredith Schorr, author of RoomMating

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“Melanie Sweeney can do no wrong! Joyous, hopeful, and perfectly swoony, Where You’re Planted is a pitch perfect love letter to romance, libraries, and finding community amidst unfathomable hardship. With its crackling chemistry and delicious angst, this grumpy-sunshine romance had me grinning from ear to ear, clutching my chest, and praying that this perfect book would never end!” — Ellie Palmer, author of Anywhere With You

“A masterclass in balancing heart with heat! Melanie Sweeney’s delicious characters and world made this book impossible to put down, but the lesson of her deeply personal story will stay with me forever: that love is the only material we truly need to rebuild, places and more importantly people.“ — Jessie Rosen, USA Today bestselling author of All the Signs

“Hope, heart and heat—Melanie Sweeney delivers her signature trifecta and then some in Where You’re Planted. Both the Texan landscape and the love story between Tansy and Jack are lush, filled with the rich emotional terrain Sweeney explores with finesse. I sweated, I giggled, I cried. An unmissable, sparkling rivals-to-lovers romance about figuring out what we’re worth, and the love we deserve.” — Katie Naymon, author of You Between the Lines

“Where You’re Planted is a beautifully moving story of love and community. Tansy and Jack are vivid and fascinating characters on their own and absolutely sparkling together. Following them as they butted heads, fell in love, and rebuilt themselves and the places that mattered to them was an absolute delight. I didn’t want this warm, swoony book to end!” — Jamie Harrow, author of One on One