Melanie Sweeney is the author of the USA Today bestseller, Take Me Home, and the forthcoming romance, Where You're Planted (Putnam 2025). She writes romance about ordinary people finding extraordinary love. Melanie lives near Houston with her husband, three kids, and too many cats. When she's not writing, she's ice skating, embroidering, or learning old One Direction songs on her ukulele.
Hazel Elliot never looks back. If a door closes, she burns the whole house down. But when she’s invited to her father’s wedding, she’s forced to return to Lockett Prairie, Texas, for the first time since she fled for college. Ash Campbell has been in love with Hazel since she dated his best friend in high school.