{"product_id":"the-roots-take-hold-mattieu-cross-9798251567915","title":"The Roots Take Hold: A Novel of Slow Magic and Second Chances","description":"Maren Ashvale has spent twenty years being indispensable. Now she's burned out, forty-two, and the reluctant owner of a Victorian greenhouse she inherited from an aunt she barely knew - in a village she's never once visited.\u003cp\u003eShe came here to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, she starts paying attention. To the ancient fig vine that simply keeps growing. To the rose that shouldn't still be blooming, but is. To the quiet man next door who asks nothing of her and, somehow, because of that, changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a single year, the greenhouse comes back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo does she.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tender, slow-magic novel about second chances, quiet courage, and growth that can't be rushed - for anyone who has ever needed to stop before they could begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Previously published as The Proving.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mattieu Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798251567915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.98d","brand":"Mattieu Cross","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172340277503,"sku":"9798251567915","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-roots-take-hold-mattieu-cross-9798251567915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}